Deterministic kinetic solvers for charged particle transport in semiconductor devices

Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn , Issue 9780817644895, 2007, Pages 151-171

  Caceres M J ^a   Carrillo, J A ^b   Gamba, I M ^c   Majorana, A ^d   Shu, C W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann transport equation (BTE); direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC); metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET); metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET); semiconductor device simulation; Weighted essentially non oscillatory (WENO) schemes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922642986     PISSN: 21643679     EISSN: 21643725     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-4554-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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