Discontinuous Galerkin solver for Boltzmann-Poisson transients

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 119-123

  Cheng, Yingda ^a   Gamba, Irene M ^a   Majorana, Armando ^b   Shu, Chi Wang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann Poisson systems; Deterministic numerical methods; Discontinuous Galerkin schemes; Semiconductor nano scale devices; Statistical hot electron transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; MESH GENERATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SILICON; TRANSIENTS;

BOLTZMANN POISSON SYSTEMS; DETERMINISTIC NUMERICAL METHODS; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN SCHEMES; SEMICONDUCTOR NANO SCALE DEVICES; STATISTICAL HOT ELECTRON TRANSPORT;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 50949092971     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-008-0247-x     Document Type: Article

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