PhonoMC Documentation

Welcome to the documentation of PhonoMC.

Source code repository: GitHub

PhonoMC is a C++17 phonon Monte Carlo simulator for semiconductor heat transport. It combines particle transport, real phonon properties from HDF5, box or surface-mesh geometries, thermal reservoirs, rough and periodic boundaries, volumetric heat sources, and OpenMP parallelism.

It supports:

• cross-plane and in-plane thermal-conductivity simulations

• STL and OBJ device geometries, including the provided FinFET model

• strict POSCAR and HDF5 material loading

• local or fixed temperature references for energy and lifetime calculations

• uniform and Gaussian volumetric heat sources

• temperature, heat-flux, conductivity, particle-balance, and geometry output

• bundled plotting tools for one-dimensional and three-dimensional results

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Methodology
• 3. Material Data
• 4. Geometry and Boundaries
• 5. Requirements
• 6. Installation
• 7. Getting Started
• 8. Input Files
• 9. Tutorial
• 10. Results and Analysis
• 11. Performance
• 12. Reference
• 13. Troubleshooting