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New feature: a combined temperature-voltage sweep can be done using the keyword “Temperature-Voltage” in the field <SweepType> of <SweepParameters> (see the example of code below). In this case, the simulation can be parallelized. <Threads> defines the number of parallel threads. Its optimal value should be the number of CPU cores available (if the available memory is sufficient) . Within each parallel temperature sweep, a serial voltage sweep is performed.
<SweepParameters> <SweepType>Temperature-Voltage</SweepType> <MinV> 50</MinV> <MaxV> 60</MaxV> <DeltaV> 2</DeltaV> <MinT> 25</MinT> <MaxT> 300</MaxT> <DeltaT> 25</DeltaT> <Threads>12</Threads> <!-- Parallelization for Temperature-Voltage sweep --> </SweepParameters>
Note that for such voltage-temperature sweep, <Maximum_Number_of_Threads> in <Simulation_Parameter> should be set to 1 (combined parallelization will result in lower performances)
<Simulation_Parameter> ... <Maximum_Number_of_Threads>1</Maximum_Number_of_Threads> </Simulation_Parameter>
At the end of the simulation, current and gain maps can be displayed. Gain_map gives the maximum gain at each (voltage,temperature) point. Max_Gain_frequency gives the map of the corresponding photon energy for which the gain is maximum.