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Charge Transport in Semiconductors

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The Monte Carlo Method for Semiconductor Device Simulation

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Abstract

Electrons in a perfect crystal1 can be described in terms of Bloch states, whose wave functions can be written as

$$ {\Psi_{{nk}}}(r) = {u_{{nk}}}(r){e^{{ik \cdot r}}} $$
((2.1.1))

where n is a band index, ħ k is the quasi momentum of the electron, and u nk (r) is a function of the space coordinate r with the periodicity of the crystal.

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Jacoboni, C., Lugli, P. (1989). Charge Transport in Semiconductors. In: The Monte Carlo Method for Semiconductor Device Simulation. Computational Microelectronics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6963-6_2

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