Periodic generation and propagation of traveling fronts in dc voltage biased semiconductor superlattices

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1588-1614

  Bonilla, Luis L ^a   Kindelan, Manuel ^a   Moscoso, Miguel ^a   Venakides, Stephanos ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiscale methods; Semiconductor instabilities; Shock wave dynamics

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENTROPY; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES; SHOCK WAVES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

MULTISCALE METHODS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; QUANTUM RESONANT TUNNELING; SEMICONDUCTOR INSTABILITIES; VOLTAGE BIAS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

EID: 0031333575     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139995288885     Document Type: Article

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