Semiconductor thermal equilibrium

thermodynamic equilibrium in semiconductors corresponding to zero net current defined by nonlinear Poisson equation

Also known as thermodynamic equilibrium, nonlinear Poisson problem

computational task

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Description

Defines semiconductor thermodynamic equilibrium as the solution of the nonlinear Poisson equation. The resulting electrostatic potential is the built-in potential, for which drift and diffusion currents exactly balance each other, yielding zero net current.

Contained entities

built-in potential		output
Neumann boundary condition in thermodynamic equilibrium	${𝝂\cdot \mathrm{\nabla }{\psi }_{eq}(𝐫)|}_{{\Gamma }_N}=0$	boundary condition
	${\psi }_{eq}$ represents built-in potential
	${\mathrm{\Gamma }}_N$ represents artificial boundary interface
	$𝝂$ represents unit normal vector
Dirichlet boundary condition in thermodynamic equilibrium	${\psi }_{eq}(𝐫){|}_{{\Gamma }_k}={\psi }_{0,k}$	boundary condition
	${\psi }_{eq}$ represents built-in potential
	${\psi }_{0,k}$ represents local charge-neutrality potential
	${\mathrm{\Gamma }}_k$ represents electrode interfaces
	$k$ represents contact index
doping profile		input
nonlinear Poisson equation (Boltzmann approximation)	$-\mathrm{\nabla }\cdot \left({\epsilon }_s\mathrm{\nabla }{\psi }_{eq}\right)=q(N_v\exp \left(\frac{E_v-q{\psi }_{eq}}{k_{B}T}\right)-N_c\exp \left(\frac{q{\psi }_{eq}-E_c}{k_{B}T}\right)+C)$	governing equation
	${\psi }_{eq}$ represents built-in potential
	$C$ represents doping profile
	$N_v$ represents effective density of states in the valence band
	$E_v$ represents band edge energy for valence band
	$N_c$ represents effective density of states in the conduction band
	$E_c$ represents band edge energy for conduction band
	${\epsilon }_s$ represents permittivity
	$q$ represents elementary charge
	$k_B$ represents Boltzmann constant
	$T$ represents temperature

Specializations

semiconductor charge neutrality

Further links

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drift-diffusion model	used by

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