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This chapter presents a short summary of the physics and properties of semiconductors. Only those subjects relevant to the presented mathematical and numerical analysis in the following chapters are included here. We explain basic notions of the structure of homogeneous semiconductors (Section 2.1) and describe the inhomogeneous semiconductor devices pn-junction diode, bipolar transistor, MOSFET, ballistic diode, and resonant tunneling diode (Section 2.2). We refer to the standard textbooks, e.g. [342, 284, 33, 61, 144] for a detailled consideration of solid-state physics and to [36, 69, 129, 139] for new developments in semiconductor physics.
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Jüngel, A. (2001). Basic Semiconductor Physics. In: Quasi-hydrodynamic Semiconductor Equations. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 41. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8334-4_2
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