A deterministic solver for the transport of the AlGaN/GaN 2D electron gas including hot-phonon and degeneracy effects

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 519-534

  Galler, M ^a   Schurrer F ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

2DEG; ALGaN GaN heterostructure; Hot phonon effects; Multigroup model

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM GALLIUM NITRIDE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; HOT ELECTRONS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHONONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

2D ELECTRON GAS; ALGAN/GAN HETEROSTRUCTURE; ALGAN/GAN HETEROSTRUCTURES; DEGENERACY EFFECT; DETERMINISTICS; HOT-PHONON EFFECTS; MULTI-GROUP; MULTIGROUP MODEL; POLARIZATION FIELD; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS;

III-V SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 23844509994     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.04.021     Document Type: Article

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