Generalized Scharfetter-Gummel schemes for electro-thermal transport in degenerate semiconductors using the Kelvin formula for the Seebeck coefficient

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2019.109091zbMath1453.82103arXiv1911.00377OpenAlexW2985941024WikidataQ126863618 ScholiaQ126863618MaRDI QIDQ2222822

Markus Kantner

Publication date: 27 January 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00377

zbMATH Keywords

semiconductor device simulationSeebeck coefficientdegenerate semiconductors (Fermi-Dirac statistics)electrothermal transportfinite volume Scharfetter-Gummel methodnonisothermal drift-diffusion system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37) PDEs in connection with semiconductor devices (35Q81) Finite volume methods applied to problems in statistical mechanics (82M12)

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Uses Software

• Fermi-Dirac
• ddfermi
• Sentaurus Device

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