The Child-Langmuir asymptotics for semiconductors including phonon interactions

COMPEL - The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 157-175

  Degond, P ^a   Qiu, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON SOURCES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; KINETIC THEORY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHONONS; CATHODES; CHARGE CARRIERS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

CHILD LANGMUIR ASYMPTOTICS; ELECTRON PHONON INTERACTION; KINETIC EQUATIONS; BOLTZMAN EQUATION; CHILD-LANGMUIR LAW; COLLISON OPERATOR; PHONON INTERACTIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; PHONONS;

EID: 0031387931     PISSN: 03321649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03321649710182896     Document Type: Article

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