Quantum-Mechanical Simulation of Electron Waveguides in Linear and Nonlinear Transport Regimes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 2465-2471

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

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMPURITIES; PROBABILITY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRON WAVEGUIDES; IMPURITY DENSITY; IMPURITY SCATTERING; LINEAR QUANTUM TRANSPORT; NONLINEAR QUANTUM TRANSPORT; WIGNER FUNCTION MODEL;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0026954177     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.163459     Document Type: Article

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