Quantum transport including nonparabolicity and phonon scattering: Application to silicon nanowires

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 336-348

  Esposito, Aniello ^a   Frey, Martin ^a   Schenk, Andreas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Nanowire; NEGF; Nonparabolicity; Scattering

Indexed keywords

PHONON SCATTERING; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SCATTERING; SILICON;

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRON PHONON SCATTERING; NEGF; NON PARABOLICITY; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; SILICON NANOWIRES; TRIPLE-GATE;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 79955731705     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-009-0276-0     Document Type: Article

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