A review of hydrodynamic and energy-transport models for semiconductor device simulation

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 251-273

  Grasser, Tibor ^b   Tang, Ting Wei ^a,c   Kosina, Hans ^a,b   Selberherr, Siegfried ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical analysis; Semiconductor device modeling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BOLTZMANN'S TRANSPORT EQUATION; DRIFT-DIFFUSION MODEL; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELING; TRANSPORT MODELS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 33646862173     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2002.808150     Document Type: Review

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