Heat generation and transport in nanoscale semiconductor devices via Monte Carlo and hydrodynamic simulations

COMPEL - The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 519-537

  Muscato, Orazio ^a   Di Stefano, Vincenza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulation; Nanotechnology; Semiconductor devices; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

1-D CASE; BOLTZMANN; COUPLED SYSTEMS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ELECTRONS AND PHONONS; EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATION; KINETIC EQUATIONS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRINCIPLE; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NANO-DEVICES; NANOSCALE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; NON-EQUILIBRIUM CHARACTERS; PEIERLS; REALISTIC DEVICES; SELF-HEATING; SILICON DIODES; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEATING; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; THERMODYNAMICS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79952374026     PISSN: 03321649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03321641111101050     Document Type: Article

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