A Discretized k-Space Method for Charge Transport in Semiconductors

✍ Scribed by D.W. Bailey; J.M. Higman

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 541 KB
• Volume: 120
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9991
• DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1995.1152

✦ Synopsis

We describe a method that has procedures similar to the Monte Carlo method for solving the Boltzmann transport equation, but is deterministic, and thus fundamentally different. In this new method, the distribution function is discretized and tracked in phase space. The scattering rates couple initial and final (\mathbf{k}) states, eliminating the need for final-state calculations. The advantages this affords are numerous, although it is disk-space and memory intensive. () 1995 Academic Press, Inc.