Impact Ionization: Beyond the Golden Rule

Abstract

We have continued our work on impact ionization including collisional broadening and the intra-collisional field effect. We have started to investigate the possibility of Monte Carlo simulations that use the pseudopotential form-factors as sole input to compute both band structure and phonon scattering rate and we have obtained preliminary results. With regard to quantum transport, we have continued our work on phonon scattering in mesoscopic systems and we have obtained first numerical results on the electron-electron interaction in simple nanostructures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA254428

Entities

People

  • G. J. Iafrate
  • J. Bude
  • K. Hess

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Band Structures
  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Collision Broadening
  • Conduction Bands
  • Electric Fields
  • Electron Electron Interactions
  • Electron Energy
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Energy Bands
  • Equations
  • Military Research
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Scattering
  • Semiconductors
  • Simulations
  • Transport Ships

Fields of Study

  • Materials science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing