Good question. A good general resource is TCAD Central where you can find an exhaustive collection of news, conferences, and software.
But ultimately, if you want to learn about TCAD you need to run some simulations yourself. I recommend the GSS simulator by Gong Ding. It is powerful, free, open source, and its synthax is based on Medici, a popular TCAD software.
Installation was not trivial, so I am going to provide a step by step guide soon.
Step 0: Install linux
Install linux. Honestly, it's worth it. Major TCAD software runs on linux anyways.
Plus there are lots of open source post-processing tools that help to interpret and analyze simulations. And installing linux is much less painful these days with stuff like Wubi and such...
If you want advice, I personally use Ubuntu 8 and it works pretty well.
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can you evaluate Archimedes and Aeneas. Both are montecarlo semiconductor device simulators and opensource
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http://www.gnu.org/software/aeneas/
Archimedes is 2D on rectangular meshes, Aeneas is 3D on tetrahedra meshes.
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