Stability of self-consistent Monte Carlo simulations: Effects of the grid size and of the coupling scheme

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1433-1442

  Palestri, Pierpaolo ^a   Barin, Nicola ^b   Esseni, David ^a   Fiegna, Claudio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Device simulations; Monte Carlo (MC) methods; Stability analysis

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POISSON EQUATION; SYSTEM STABILITY;

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; COUPLING SCHEME; DEVICE SIMULATIONS; GRID SIZE; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 33744802250     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2006.874758     Document Type: Article

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