Quantum transport modeling of ultrasmall semiconductor devices

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E82-C, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 880-887

  Tsuchiyat, Hideaki ^a   Miyoshi, Tanroku ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boltzmann transport equation; Nonequilibrium quantum transport; Quantum mechanical correction of potential; Ultrasmall semiconductor devices; Wigner distribution function

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; NONEQUILIBRIUM QUANTUM TRANSPORT; QUANTUM MECHANICAL EFFECTS; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0033321196     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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