semiconductor device founded 1995 headquarters burnaby british columbia canada key people dr. simon li founder & ceo products technology cad website www.crosslight.com crosslight software inc. is an international company headquartered in greater vancouver bc canada . officially spun off from the national research council of canada nrc in 1995 1 it provides technology computer aided design tcad tools for semiconductor device and process simulations . crosslight s founder dr. z.m. simon li is a pioneer 2 in the field of optoelectronic device simulation tcad and based on this work crosslight claims to be the first commercial vendor of tcad tools for quantum well laser diodes . crosslight also licenses other technology from the stanford university tcad group for semiconductor process simulations . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 lastip 2.2 pics3d 2.3 apsys 2.4 csuprem 2.5 procom 3 references history edit after its initial spin off from the nrc crosslight launched its flagship product lastip a 2d simulator for quantum well laser diodes . based on its founder s research 2 lastip predates other well known tools in the field such as minilase . 3 by adding the ability to model quantum well active regions lastip was also a significant step up from earlier comparable efforts such as hitachi s hiladies . 4 as early laser diode tcad tools were primarily developed by individual researchers for their own use crosslight claims that lastip s commercialization makes them first to market in this field . further improvements in the technology followed including the development of pics3d for 3d modeling of optoelectronic devices a feat which earned crosslight the laser focus world commercial technology achievement award in 1998 . 5 for non laser tcad applications such as solar cells and light emitting diodes a third tool called apsys was developed . 6 7 in march 2004 crosslight licensed the legendary 2d process simulator suprem iv.gs 8 from stanford university and extended it to 3d as the core of its process simulation tool csuprem . in january 2010 crosslight entered into a partnership with acceleware with the intention of producing greater speed in thin film solar cell and image pixel sensor simulations . 9 since its founding crosslight has build up a worldwide base of industrial and academic users 10 and has sponsored research and academic projects at various universities and research institutes . 11 12 13 14 15 products edit lastip edit laser technology integrated program is crosslight s flagship product and was intended to bring to the laser diode community a level of maturity equivalent to that seen in the silicon ic industry . it includes optical gain models for quantum well wire dot with different types of spectral broadening coulomb interaction for many body effects k.p non parabolic subbands and models optical mode competition in structures supporting multiple lateral modes . 2 pics3d edit photonic integrated circuit simulator in 3d is a state of the art 3d simulator for surface and edge emission laser diodes soa and other similar active waveguide devices . 2 3 dimensional semiconductor equations drift diffusion are coupled to the optical modes in both the lateral and longitudinal directions . optical properties such as quantum well wire dot optical gain and spontaneous emission rates are computed self consistently . apsys edit advanced physical models of semiconductor devices is based on 2d 3d finite element analysis of electrical optical and thermal properties of compound semiconductor devices with an emphasis on band structure engineering and quantum mechanical effects . unlike other tcad tools used in the microelectronics industry silicon is merely a special case of a more generalized semiconductor material library . csuprem edit crosslight suprem is a 3d process simulation software package based on the suprem.iv.gs code developed at the integrated circuits laboratory of stanford university . procom edit processes of compounds is a 2 3 dimensional process simulation software package for compound semiconductor growth by metal organic chemical vapor deposition mocvd . given the deposition reactor geometry chemical species and growth condition parameters procom predicts the semiconductor film growth rate composition thickness uniformity dopant incorporation and defect distribution based on detailed chemical kinetics and mass heat transfer models . 16 references edit hill bert september 27 1996 . nrc showcases spinoff companies . the ottawa citizen . a b c li z. m. ; dzurko kenneth m. ; delage a. ; mcalister s.p. april 1992 . a self consistent two dimensional model of quantum well semiconductor lasers optimization of a grin sch sqw laser structure . ieee j. quantum electronics . 28 4 792 803 . doi 10.1109 3.135196 . grupen m. ; hess k. nov 1993 . the self consistent simulation of the modulation responses of quantum well lasers . ieee transactions on electron devices . 40 11 2105 2106 . doi 10.1109 16.239771 . yamaguchi k. ; ohtoshi t. ; kanai nagaoka c. ; uda t. july 3 1996 . two dimensional device simulator for laser diodes hiladies . electron . lett . 22 14 740 741 . doi 10.1049 el 19860509 . z. simon dr. li . algorithm models thermal effects in vcsels . laser focus world may 1997 page 251 . missing or empty url help li z.q. leo ; li simon july 2007 . sophisticated models replicate the effects of tunnel junctions pdf . compound semiconductor . 13 6 29 31 . carrier manipulation combats droop . compound semiconductor magazine . may 30 2012 . retrieved jan 31 2014 . http www tcad.stanford.edu tcad programs suprem iv.gs book.html acceleware delivers 100x speed up for solar cell simulations . fox business . january 19 2010 . access date requires url help ray randy march 7 2011 . crosslight scores with laser testing software . the ottawa citizen . opto electronic group ubc http mina.ubc.ca lukasc funding semiconductor device group ncue http blog.ncue.edu.tw sdmclab doc 722 nusod http www.nusod.org applied nano & bio photonics group university of arkansas http comp.uark.edu syu research facilities.html university of toronto smart power integration & semiconductor devices research group http www.vrg.utoronto.ca ngwt collaborators.html li z.q. chemical kinetics and design of gas inlets for iii v growth by movpe in a quartz showerhead reactor . j. crystal growth vol . 272 2004 pp. 47 51 . doi 10.1016 j.jcrysgro .2004.08.112 . missing or empty url help retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title crosslight software & oldid 735299470 categories software companies of canadacompanies based in burnabyhidden categories pages using web citations with no urlpages using citations with accessdate and no url navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 august 2016 at 20 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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