Modeling of transport through submicron semiconductor structures: A direct solution to the coupled Poisson-Boltzmann equations

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 215-219

  Csontos, D ^a   Ulloa, S E ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Electron distribution function; Submicron devices; Upwind method

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944531437     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-004-7048-7     Document Type: Article

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