ASYMPTOTICAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF DEGENERACY EFFECTS ON THE DRIFT-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS FOR SEMICONDUCTORS

A current approximation for modeling electron transport in semiconductor devices is to assume small electron density. Through this method nondegenerate models are obtained. Here we present an asymptotical analysis of that approximation on the drift-diffusion equation. The numerical approximations of the degenerate and nondegenerate equations are then compared. A modified Scharfetter-Gummel scheme which integrates the degenerate drift-diffusion equation is proposed for comparison.