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A. Jüngel:
"Electron transport and heating in semiconductor devices and circuits";
Keynote Lecture: Topics in Kinetic Theory, Victoria (invited); 2009-06-29 - 2009-07-03.

Thermal effects in semiconductor devices and electric circuits
are modeled and numerically simulated. The particle temperatures
are computed from the energy-transport equations, which are
derived from the semiconductor Boltzmann equation in the diffusion
limit. The complete model also includes a heat equation for the
lattice temperature, the electric network equations, and the thermal
network describing the heat evolution in the circuit elements.
The final model is a system of nonlinear partial-differential-
algebraic equations, which are discretized in time by BDF methods
and in space by mixed finite elements. The heating effects are
illustrated by several numerical examples.

Siehe englisches Abstract.

Heating; semiconductors; finite element methods