As microelectronic devices continue to shrink and process requirements beco
me ever more stringent, plasma modeling and simulation becomes increasingly
more attractive as a tool for design, control, and optimization of plasma
reactors. A brief introduction and overview of the plasma reactor modeling
and simulation problem is presented in this paper. The problem is broken do
wn into smaller pieces (reactor, sheath. microfeature. and crystal lattice)
to address the disparity in length scales. A modular approach also helps t
o resolve the issue of disparity in time scales. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science
S.A. All rights reserved.