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We prove the behavior of high-energy tails for the Boltzmann transport equation for silicon semiconductors, in the stationary and homogeneous regime, for parabolic band approximation, and acoustic and optical phonons scattering.
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Muscato, O. (2006). Electron-Distribution Function for the Boltzmann Equation in Semiconductors. In: Saraniti, M., Ravaioli, U. (eds) Nonequilibrium Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 110. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36588-4_54
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