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Physical Models for Silicon VLSI

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Semiconductor Device Modelling

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Device Modeling based on the self-consistent solution of fundamental semiconductor equations dates back to the famous work of Gummel in 1964 [31]. Since then numerical device modeling has been applied to nearly all important devices. For some citations regarding the history of modeling the interested reader is refered to [55].

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Selberherr, S. (1989). Physical Models for Silicon VLSI. In: Snowden, C.M. (eds) Semiconductor Device Modelling. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1033-0_6

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