Nonlinear closures for hydrodynamical semiconductor transport models

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 387-395

  Anile, A M ^a   Trovato, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON GAS;

MOMENT EQUATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSPORT;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0042715497     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(97)00278-8     Document Type: Article

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