On a Petrov-Galerkin method for the electrical and thermal behaviour of semiconductor devices in two dimensions

DOI10.1016/0378-4754(87)90072-3MaRDI QIDQ1098602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John J. H. Miller

Publication date 1987

Published in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4754(87)90072-3

zbMATH Keywords

exponentially fitted finite difference approximationsFourier equationPetrov-Galerkin methodPoisson equationScharfetter-Gummel schemesemiconductor devices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Technical applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A55)

Review text

The author considers the stationary case of the thermal behaviour of semiconductor devices in two dimensions. A non-standard Petrov-Galerkin method is used to obtain a discretization of the weak formulation of the corresponding differential equations - the Poisson equation of elliptic type, the nonlinear Fourier equation, and two continuity equations. The standard finite difference approximations on an arbitrary mesh is obtained for the Poisson and Fourier equations and exponentially fitted finite difference approximations for the two continuity equations. The latter are in fact the usual generalizations to two dimensions of the well-known Scharfetter-Gummel scheme for one-dimensional problems.

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