Multidimensional spherical harmonics expansion of Boltzmann equation for transport in semiconductors

D. Ventura; Antonio Gnudi; G. Baccarani; F. Odeh

doi:10.1016/0893-9659(92)90046-C

Applied Mathematics Letters

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01 Jan 1992

Multidimensional spherical harmonics expansion of Boltzmann equation for transport in semiconductors

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Abstract

A spherical harmonics expansion method of the Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE) in the three-dimensional space is proposed. The method is quite general in terms of scattering matrix and band structure. We show a numerical application to a two-dimensional p-n junction. © 1992.

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