Microreversibility, fluctuations, and nonlinear transport in transistors.

Abstract

We present a stochastic approach for charge transport in transistors. In this approach, the electron and hole densities are governed by diffusion-reaction stochastic differential equations satisfying local detailed balance and the electric field is determined with the Poisson equation. The approach is consistent with the laws of electricity, thermodynamics, and microreversibility. In this way, the signal amplifying effect of transistors is verified under their working conditions. We also perform the full counting statistics of the two electric currents coupled together in transistors and we show that the fluctuation theorem holds for their joint probability distribution.Similarresults are obtained including the displacement currents. In addition, the Onsager reciprocal relations and their generalizations to nonlinear transport properties deduced from the fluctuation theorem are numerically shown to be satisfied.