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Transport of charged carriers in semiconductor devices can be described by the Boltzmann transport equation, which provides a semiclassical description. In this context, semiclassical means that the transport is described by the classical equations of motion, whereas the scattering events, which are assumed to happen instantaneously, are described by the laws of quantum mechanics. This formulation of carrier transport is generally considered to be valid for modern devices.
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Palankovski, V., Quay, R. (2004). Physical Models. In: Analysis and Simulation of Heterostructure Devices. Computational Microelectronics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0560-3_3
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