A review of global modeling of charge transport in semiconductors and full-wave electromagnetics

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 6 PART 2, 1999, Pages 817-829

  Grondin, Robert O ^a   El Ghazaly, Samir M ^a   Goodnick, Stephen ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CHARGE TRANSPORT SEMICONDUCTORS; FULL WAVE ELECTROMAGNETICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0033366440     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.769315     Document Type: Article

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