The Thermoballistic Transport Model

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Reinhard Lipperheide, Uwe Wille

   Pages 1-4

3. Drift-Diffusion and Ballistic Transport

   • Reinhard Lipperheide, Uwe Wille

   Pages 5-24

4. Prototype Thermoballistic Model

   • Reinhard Lipperheide, Uwe Wille

   Pages 25-48

5. Thermoballistic Approach: Concept

   • Reinhard Lipperheide, Uwe Wille

   Pages 49-82

6. Thermoballistic Approach: Implementation

   • Reinhard Lipperheide, Uwe Wille

   Pages 83-109

7. Examples

   • Reinhard Lipperheide, Uwe Wille

   Pages 111-137

8. Summary and Outlook

   • Reinhard Lipperheide, Uwe Wille

   Pages 139-141

9. Back Matter

   Pages 143-150

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The book presents a comprehensive survey of the thermoballistic approach to charge carrier transport in semiconductors. This semi-classical approach, which the authors have developed over the past decade, bridges the gap between the opposing drift-diffusion and ballistic models of carrier transport. While incorporating basic features of the latter two models, the physical concept underlying the thermoballistic approach constitutes a novel, unifying scheme. It is based on the introduction of "ballistic configurations" arising from a random partitioning of the length of a semiconducting sample into ballistic transport intervals. Stochastic averaging of the ballistic carrier currents over the ballistic configurations results in a position-dependent thermoballistic current, which is the key element of the thermoballistic concept and forms the point of departure for the calculation of all relevant transport properties. In the book, the thermoballistic concept and its implementation are developed in great detail and specific examples of interest to current research in semiconductor physics and spintronics are worked out.

• Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
• Semi-classical Description
• Theory of Charge Carrier Transport in Semiconductors
• Thermoballistic Transport Model
• Unification of Drif-Diffusion and Ballistic Transport
• Unification of Drif-Diffusion and Ballistic Transport
• ballistic transport intervals
• spintronics research

• Lise-Meitner-Campus Wannsee, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin, Germany

  Reinhard Lipperheide

• Lise-Meitner-Campus Wannsee, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin und Energie, Berlin, Germany

  Uwe Wille

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