An efficient solution scheme for the spherical-harmonics expansion of the boltzmann transport equation

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 353-361

  Vecchi, Maria Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Spherical harmonics expansion; Submicrometer devices

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS EXPANSION (SHE);

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0031123286     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.602472     Document Type: Article

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