Its products are targeted towards applications such as semiconductor manufacturing, solar cell and flat panel manufacturing, lighting and display, automotive, aerospace/defense and electrical devices such as circuit breakers and switchgears.
VizGlow
VizGlow is a robust, industrial simulation tool for high-fidelity modeling of non-equilibrium plasma discharges.
As part of the OverViz Simulation Suite, it can be fully coupled with electromagnetic, fluid flow, and kinetic particle models to provide solutions to a wide range of complex multiphysics problems. It has been used to analyze discharges ranging from low pressure plasma reactors at a few mTorr to high pressure streamers at 15atm, all with a single solver. VizGlow is fully parallelized and can be used to perform large, 3D simulations with complex geometries. Its robust solvers and scalability make it ideal for solving real world engineering problems.
Features
- 1-D, 2-D (planar/axisymmetric) and 3-D problems
- Self-consistent (sheath+plasma) and quasi-neutral formulation
- Multi-species, multi-temperature formulation
- Finite-rate gas chemistry (complex gas mixtures) and surface chemistry (etching, deposition, etc.)
- Coupling to electromagnetics and fluid-flow
- Coupling to kinetic particle models for hybrid plasma simulation
- Photoionization model
- General circuit model
- Valid over range of pressures ~mTorr to 10+atm.
- Unstructured mixed mesh framework
- Parallel computing
Applications
- Thin film etching / deposition / cleaning
- Semiconductor processing
- Semiconductor equipment design
- Chemical vapor deposition
- Lighting and display
- Aerodynamic flow control
- Chemical processing
- Combustion ignition / stabilization
- Biomedical (e.g. sterilization)
- Plasma propulsion
- Plasma metamaterials
Discharge Types
- Capacitively Coupled Plasmas (CCP)
- Inductively Coupled Plasmas (ICP)
- Microwave Plasmas(MWP)
- Direct Current (DC) Plasmas
- Atmospheric Pressure
- Plasmas(APP)
- Microdischarges (MD)
Industries Served
- Semiconductor equipment makers
- Semiconductor IC manufacturers
- Solar cell manufacturers
- Flat-panel display manufacturers
- Automotive industry (e.g. next generation combustion ignition)
- Aerospace industry (e.g. flow control, plasma propulsion)
- Electrical device manufacturers
VizGrain
VizGrain is modeling tool within the OverViz Simulation Suite for rarefied gas flows, macro-particle (e.g. dust) dynamics and hybrid plasma simulations.
Features
- 1-D, 2-D (planar/axisymmetric) and 3-D problems
- Multiple particle types (e.g. multiple species)
- Particle force models: Electromagnetic Lorentz force, Gravitational force, aerodynamic drag
- Particle chargeup models
- Particle-in-cell (PIC) modeling
- Particle collisions: Direct-Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) approach, Monte Carlo Collision (MCC) approach
- Coupling to VizGlow (hybrid plasma simulations, prediction of complex ion energy and angular distribution functions on processing surfaces)
- Hybrid unstructured mixed mesh formulation
- Parallel computing
Applications
- Thin film etching / deposition
- Gas stream processing
- Low-pressure aerodynamic flows
- Chemical processing
Industries Served
- Semiconductor Equipment Makers
- Semiconductor IC Manufacturers
- Solar Cell Manufacturers
- Flat Panel Display Manufacturers
- Aerospace Industry
VizFlow
VizFlow software is a high-fidelity analysis tool for fluid flow as a stand-alone solver or coupling fluid flow with other OverViz simulation packages.
Features
- 1-D, 2-D (planar/axisymmetric) and 3-D problems
- Variety of fluid types (incompressible, compressible, calorically perfect gases, thermally perfect gases, equilibrium reactive flows, etc.)
- Automatic generation of equilibrium flow properties
- Conjugate heat transfer with flow+solid domains
- Moving body dynamics with flow domain
- Coupling to other solvers
- Parallel computing
Applications
- General flow field analysis
- Chemical vapor deposition
- Low-speed and high speed aerodynamic flows
- Materials processing
Industries Served
- Semiconductor manufacturing
- Electrical systems
- Automotive Industry
- Aerospace Industry
- Oil and gas
- Manufacturing
ChemZone
ChemZone simulation software is a 0-D bulk reactor tool for rapid analysis of plasma discharges and neutral reactive flows, such as those in combustion or chemical vapor deposition.
ChemZone also provides comprehensive capabilities for finite-rate chemical reaction mechanism development, analysis and optimization in these systems.
Features
- Fast 0-D (global) reactor simulations (in seconds of computer time)
- Aids the development of very large chemistries, including coupled gas and multiple surface mechanisms
- Enables detailed view of chemistry parameters, including reaction rate magnitudes, contribution of individual reactions to specific species production, species wall fluxes, etc.
- Support for sensitivity analysis of quantities of interest to reaction mechanism parameters
Applications
- Thin film etching / deposition
- Gas stream processing
- Chemical processing
- Combustion
- Biomedical
Industries Served
- Semiconductor Equipment Makers
- Semiconductor IC Manufacturers
- Solar Cell Manufacturers
- Flat Panel Display Manufacturers
- Automotive Industry
- Aerospace Industry
- Electrical Device Manufacturers
VizSpark
For 3D/2D/1D modeling of equilibrium thermal (arc) plasmas in spark discharges, arc lamps, plasma torches, etc.
VizEM
For 3D/2D/1D modeling of electromagnetic phenomena including quasi-static (electrostatics and magnetostatics), and high-frequency (wave) description in both time-domain and frequency domain.
VizMesh
A easy-to-use, robust, 2D meshing tool to generate hybrid unstructured computational grids for multi-dimensional solvers.
VizData
We support comprehensive databases for 1) finite-rate chemistry mechanisms in non-equilibrium systems (plasmas, combustion, etc.); 2) equilibrium chemical systems in combustion, aerodynamics, and arc plasmas