Authors: Fellner, Klemens
Kniely, Michael
Title: Uniform convergence to equilibrium for a family of drift-diffusion models with trap-assisted recombination and self-consistent potential
Language (ISO): en
Abstract: We investigate a recombination–drift–diffusion model coupled to Poisson's equation modelling the transport of charge within certain types of semiconductors. In more detail, we study a two-level system for electrons and holes endowed with an intermediate energy level for electrons occupying trapped states. As our main result, we establish an explicit functional inequality between relative entropy and entropy production, which leads to exponential convergence to equilibrium. We stress that our approach is applied uniformly in the lifetime of electrons on the trap level assuming that this lifetime is sufficiently small.
Subject Headings: Entropy method
Exponential convergence to equilibrium
PDEs in connection with semiconductor devices
Reaction-diffusion equations
Self-consistent potential
Trapped states
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2003/40829
http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-22686
Issue Date: 2021-07-06
Rights link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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