Bifurcation of traveling waves in extrinsic semiconductors

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 144, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-19

  Katzengruber, B ^a   Krupa, M ^a   Szmolyan, P ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Global bifurcations; Semiconductors; Singular perturbations; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038999850     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(00)00030-0     Document Type: Article

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