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Message started by physixer on Jun 26^th, 2016, 1:01pm

Title: Forum activity and other communities?
Post by physixer on Jun 26^th, 2016, 1:01pm

Hello, I joined this forum about two years ago and made a post (on July 3, 2014 to be precise). My post received replies and I'm appreciative of that. Thanks. :)

At the moment my post can be seen at the top of the 2nd page. Meaning for the last about 24 months, this forum accumulated 1 page worth of new posts. (Although in all fairness, I'm partly responsible for this too, since I only made one post in the last two years. :( )

I'm wondering if this is because semiconductor modeling is a very small community (I doubt it is this small), or that not a lot of people know about this website and probably hang out in much larger numbers somewhere else.

I found out about this website from tcadcentral.com. However many other links that I followed over there are dead or not updated in a long time. That means tcadcentral.com is not up-to-date with online semiconductor modeling communities.

I would appreciate if anyone can share any other communities which are a lot more active in the topic of semiconductor-modelling (especially un-affiliated, open-source-favoring, etc). Please feel free to share any other comments. Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Forum activity and other communities?
Post by Geoffrey_Coram on Jun 27^th, 2016, 8:10am

I suspect most semiconductor physicists are either
a) in a research group at a university, and discuss everything with other members of their own research group or lab
b) students in a class, discussing with other students and teaching assistants
c) at a private company, and reluctant to discuss proprietary information, or visiting here as a hobby/service to younger researchers

Semiconductor modeling isn't something that amateurs can tinker around with in their basements.