Revised stability analysis of the nonlinear Poisson scheme in self-consistent Monte Carlo device simulations

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1443-1451

  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

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DEVICE SIMULATIONS; NONLINEAR POISSON SCHEME; SELF-CONSISTENT MONTE CARLO (MC) DEVICE; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33744832645     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2006.874757     Document Type: Article

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