A meshless method for the numerical solution of the 2- and 3-D semiconductor Poisson equation

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 121-126

  Wordelman, C J ^b   Aluru, N R ^b   Ravaioli, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Finite point methods; Mesh generation; Meshless methods; Monte carlo methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009563392     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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