Unified particle approach to Wigner-Boltzmann transport in small semiconductor devices
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M. Nedjalkov,1,2 H. Kosina,2 S. Selberherr,2 C. Ringhofer,3 and D. K. Ferry1 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Center for Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1804, USA 2Institute for Microlectronics, TU-Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29, E360 A-1040, Vienna, Austria 3Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1804, USA (Received 20 March 2004; published 23 September 2004)
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