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Formation of shock waves in flow of charge carriers in semiconductors

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A hydrodynamic model of the physics of semiconductors is studied numerically. It is shown that the solution of the problem of an (n+-n-n+) ballistic diode has a shock wave. This problem is solved using an iterative method. An economical conservative semi-implicit difference scheme is developed for search of a numerical solution.

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Siberian State Geodetic Academy, Novosibirsk 630108. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 3–10, September–October, 1999.

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Krymskikh, D.A. Formation of shock waves in flow of charge carriers in semiconductors. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 40, 777–783 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02468458

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