A Detailed Investigation of Heterojunction Transport Using a Rigorous Solution to the Boltzmann Equation

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 592-600

  Stettler, Mark A ^a   Lundstrom, Mark S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; HETEROJUNCTION TRANSPORT;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 0028413988     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.278515     Document Type: Article

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