Homogeneous transport in silicon dioxide using the spherical-harmonics expansion of the BTE

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E83-C, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1183-1188

  Scozzoli, Lucia ^a   Reggianlt, Susanna ^a   Rudan, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; ELECTRON DRIFT VELOCITY; ELECTRON PHONON SCATTERING; MACROSCOPIC TRANSPORT PROPERTY; SPHERICAL HARMONIC EXPANSION;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 0034247713     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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