Maximum entropy principle within a total energy scheme: Application to hot-carrier transport in semiconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 16667-16681

  Trovato, M ^a   Reggiani, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

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EID: 0000766999     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.16667     Document Type: Article

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