A semiclassical approach to Coulomb scattering of conduction electrons on ionized impurities in nondegenerate semiconductors

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 9749-9752

  Poklonski, N A ^a   Vyrko, S A ^a   Yatskevich, V I ^a   Kocherzhenko, A A ^a  

^a BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMPURITIES; IONIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COULOMB SCATTERING;

ELECTRON SCATTERING;

EID: 0038819969     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1573735     Document Type: Article

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