Simulation of Quantum Transport in Quantum Devices with Spatially Varying Effective Mass

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 1246-1252

  Tsuchiya, Hideaki ^a   Ogawa, Matsuto ^a   Miyoshi, Tanroku ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM THEORY;

QUANTUM DEVICES; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; WIGNER FUNCTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0026173347     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.81613     Document Type: Article

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