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Semiconductor module does t identifies materials as an insulator

Carlo Semiconductor modeling

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Hello I am trying to model charge transport through a nanowire (semiconductor) on a glass substrate with the semiconductor model. Therefore I contacted the wire with two metal contact nodes and setting the voltage on one contact to 1 V and the other one to 0V; the material properties of the individual materials are set in local variables and are applied on the dedicated domains. But in my solution for the electric potential I can see that the potential drops over the wire and over the insulating material (glass) what does not make sense. Also I saw that comsol doesn't identifies the boundary between the wire and the glass substrate as an insulator interface.

is there a way I can define a domain or a material as an insulator ? Or am I completely on the wrong way?


0 Replies Last Post May 19, 2022, 10:30 a.m. EDT
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