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Microscopic theory of electronic noise in semiconductor unipolar structures

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Abbreviations

e-e:

electron-electron

GBC:

global boundary condition

GR:

generation-recombination

LBC:

local boundary condition

MC:

Monte Carlo

PS:

Poisson solver

RTS:

random telegraph signal

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