Semiconductor charge neutrality (concept of local charge neutrality in semiconductor)

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Available identifiers

MaRDI QIDQ6534341 FDOQ6534341

Description

The physical concept of local charge neutrality in semiconductor is characterized by the absence of space charge regions. Hence, the Poisson equation for the electric field potential simplifies to the Laplace equation.

Contained entities

permittivity
electrode interfaces
applied external voltage
permittivity of vacuum
electric potential
periodic boundary condition for electric potential	$\varphi (r,t)=\varphi (r+L,t)$
	$L$ represents length of unit cell
	$\varphi$ represents electric potential
	$t$ represents time
Dirichlet boundary condition for electric potential	$\varphi (r,t){|}_{{\Gamma }_k}={\psi }_0+U_k(t)$
	$U_k$ represents applied external voltage
	${\Gamma }_k$ represents electrode interfaces
	$\varphi$ represents electric potential
	$t$ represents time
Laplace equation for the electric potential	$-\mathrm{\nabla }\left({ϵ}_s\mathrm{\nabla }\varphi \right)=0$
	${ϵ}_s$ represents permittivity
	$\varphi$ represents electric potential
Neumann boundary condition for electric potential	${n\cdot \mathrm{\nabla }\varphi (r,t)|}_{{\Gamma }_N}=0$
	${\Gamma }_N$ represents electrode interfaces
	$\varphi$ represents electric potential
	$t$ represents time
	$n$ represents unit normal vector

Further linked items

Item	Property
drift-diffusion model	used by
electron shuttling model	used by
semiconductor thermal equilibrium	specialized by

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