Macroscopic models for semiconductor heterostructures

DOI10.1063/1.532528zbMath0938.82049OpenAlexW1966982940MaRDI QIDQ4701668

Pierre Degond, Christian Schmeiser

Publication date: 21 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/e434b5f2866f598e2e9c4e1a2859d73b59314750

zbMATH Keywords

semiconductor Boltzmann equationspherical harmonics expansionkinetic boundary layersheterojunctionshigher-order transmissionspace-dependent band characteristic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40)

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