Self-sustained current oscillations in the kinetic theory of semiconductor superlattices

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2009.07.008zbMATH Open1175.82012arXiv0907.3807OpenAlexW2092253121MaRDI QIDQ733024FDOQ733024

Authors: E. Cebrián, L. L. Bonilla, Ana Carpio 

Publication date: 15 October 2009

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

Abstract: We present the first numerical solutions of a kinetic theory description of self-sustained current oscillations in n-doped semiconductor superlattices. The governing equation is a single-miniband Boltzmann-Poisson transport equation with a BGK (Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook) collision term. Appropriate boundary conditions for the distribution function describe electron injection in the contact regions. These conditions seamlessly become Ohm's law at the injecting contact and the zero charge boundary condition at the receiving contact when integrated over the wave vector. The time-dependent model is numerically solved for the distribution function by using the deterministic Weighted Particle Method. Numerical simulations are used to ascertain the convergence of the method. The numerical results confirm the validity of the Chapman-Enskog perturbation method used previously to derive generalized drift-diffusion equations for high electric fields because they agree very well with numerical solutions thereof.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3807

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zbMATH Keywords

particle methodsself-sustained current oscillationssemiconductor superlatticecontact boundary conditionsBoltzmann-BGK-Poisson kinetic equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

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