Existence of weak solutions to a class of degenerate semiconductor equations modeling avalanche generation (Q1036483)

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    Existence of weak solutions to a class of degenerate semiconductor equations modeling avalanche generation
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5632554

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      Existence of weak solutions to a class of degenerate semiconductor equations modeling avalanche generation (English)
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      13 November 2009
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      Summary: We consider the drift-diffusion model with avalanche generation for evolution in time of electron and hole densities \(n, p\) coupled with the electrostatic potential \(\psi \) in a semiconductor device. We also assume that the diffusion term is degenerate. The existence of local weak solutions to this Dirichlet-Neumann mixed boundary value problem is obtained.
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      degenerate semiconductor equation
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      avalanche generation
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      drift-diffusion model
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      weak solutions
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