A fully coupled scheme for a Boltzmann-Poisson equation solver based on a spherical harmonics expansion

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 225-241

  Hong, S M ^a   Jungemann, C ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Noise; Small signal; Spherical harmonics expansion

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; EXPANSION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; MOSFET DEVICES;

DISCRETIZATION SCHEME; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; HIGHER ORDER EXPANSIONS; NEWTON RAPHSON SCHEME; NOISE; SCATTERING OPERATORS; SMALL-SIGNAL; SPHERICAL HARMONICS EXPANSIONS;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 78649551305     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-009-0294-y     Document Type: Article

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