The Boltzmann-Poisson system is the most reliable model for the flow
of charged particles in semiconductor devices.
Real device models have not already been simulated
by deterministic computations due to its high computational cost, although
is very well known and general
practice to solve these models by Monte-Carlo methods.
In this talk we focus in a rather easy and fast deterministic
solver for a 50nm and 400nm channel flow for a Si diode.
The system of equations reduces to a linear evolution
kinetic (non-local) 1-space 3-velicity dimensional space equation solved
by WENO methods coupled with the Poisson equation
for the force field acting on the particles.
We will focus on the derivation of the method, simulation results for
diodes and comparisons to other classical models in the
field. In particular we compute, deterministically, the evolution
probability density function with its first three moments.
Difficulties to go to 2-space dimensions will be
discussed.
This work has been done in collaboration with J.A. Carrillo,
A. Majorana and C.-W. Shu.