The electron high-energy distribution function: A comparison of analytical models with Monte Carlo calculations
- 15 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 69 (6) , 3592-3595
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.348503
Abstract
We compare the high-energy distribution function of the lucky electron model, the Maxwellian distribution, and the asymptotic solution of Boltzmann’s equation with Monte Carlo calculations in the effective-mass approximation. We show that the Monte Carlo calculations are in good agreement with the asymptotic solution of Boltzmann’s equation for constant and for space-dependent electric fields while the other distributions do not agree with the Monte Carlo results.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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