Mathematical properties of a kinetic transport model for carriers and phonons in semiconductors

Abstract.

We present studies on the mathematical properties of a multigroup formulation of the Bloch–Boltzmann–Peierls equations. The considered model equations are based on a general carrier dispersion law and contain the full quantum statistics of both the carriers and the phonons. Moreover, the transport model allows the investigation of particle distributions with arbitrary anisotropy with respect to the main direction. We prove the boundedness of the solution according to the Pauli principle and study the conservational properties of the multigroup equations. In addition, the existence of a Lyapounov functional to the proposed model equations is proved and expressions for the equilibrium solution are given. Numerical results are presented for the stationary state distributions of a coupled system of electrons and longitudinal optical phonons in GaAs.