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As applied to the numerical simulation of electron transport and scattering processes in semiconductors an efficient model describing the scattering of electrons by the ionized impurities is proposed. On the example of GaAs at 77 and 300 K…
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Theory of low temperature kinetic phenomena in metals without inversion center is developed. Kinetic properties of a metal without inversion center are described by four kinetic equations for the diagonal (intra-band) and the off-diagonal…
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