Kinetic studies of non-equilibrium electronic ensembles in semiconductors (1990-92).
Principal collaborator: Anatoly Grinberg
Under conditions when optical phonon scattering is the dominant inelastic interaction, we have shown that the electron transport kinetics contains a new conserved quantity: the reduced differential current or RDC. Approximate conservation of RDC explains the Hickmott-Eaves oscillations in current-voltage characteristics of tunnel junctions. Validity range of the RDC conservation has been studied by analytical and Monte-Carlo solutions of the Boltzmann equation. These ideas are likely to become important for semiconductor device modeling based on the Boltzmann transport.
Key papers: 76, 77, 88, 89, 92
Where the numbers refer to the attached list of Publications
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