Analysis of a diffusive effective mass model for nanowires

DOI10.3934/KRM.2011.4.1121zbMATH Open1242.82053arXiv1105.3656OpenAlexW2952865523MaRDI QIDQ429044FDOQ429044

Nicolas Vauchelet, Clément Jourdana

Publication date: 25 June 2012

Published in: Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose in this paper to derive and analyze a self-consistent model describing the diffusive transport in a nanowire. From a physical point of view, it describes the electron transport in an ultra-scaled confined structure, taking in account the interactions of charged particles with phonons. The transport direction is assumed to be large compared to the wire section and is described by a drift-diffusion equation including effective quantities computed from a Bloch problem in the crystal lattice. The electrostatic potential solves a Poisson equation where the particle density couples on each energy band a two dimensional confinement density with the monodimensional transport density given by the Boltzmann statistics. On the one hand, we study the derivation of this Nanowire Drift-Diffusion Poisson model from a kinetic level description. On the other hand, we present an existence result for this model in a bounded domain.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3656

zbMATH Keywords

diffusive limitrelative entropy methoddrift-diffusion systemHamiltonian's spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Diffusion and convection (76R99) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

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• A quantum drift-diffusion model and its use into a hybrid strategy for strongly confined nanostructures
• AN EFFECTIVE MASS MODEL FOR THE SIMULATION OF ULTRA-SCALED CONFINED DEVICES
• Hybrid coupling of a one-dimensional energy-transport Schrödinger system
• Analysis of the drift-diffusion-Poisson-Boltzmann system for nanowire and nanopore sensors in the alternating-current regime

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