Bipolar Quantum Hydrodynamic Model Research Articles

Existence and uniqueness of steady states to semiconductor bipolar full quantum hydrodynamic model

In this paper, we are concerned with the existence and uniqueness of subsonic steady states to the one-dimensional bipolar full quantum hydrodynamic model for semiconductors in a bounded interval. The main result is proved by perturbation arguments combined with Banach's Fixed Point Theorem. Moreover, we also obtain the uniform estimates of steady states with respect to the physical parameters appear in the model, which comes in useful for discussing the relaxation time limit and semi-classical limit in future study.

The stationary solution of a one-dimensional bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model

In this paper, we consider the existence and uniqueness of stationary solution to the bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model in one dimensional space with general non-constant doping profile. The existence of the stationary solution is proved by Leray-Schauder fixed-point theorem and a crucial truncation technique is used to derive the positive upper and lower bounds of the stationary solution. The uniqueness of the stationary solution is shown by a delicate energy estimate.

Large time behavior of solutions to 1-dimensional bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model for semiconductors

In this article, we study the 1-dimensional bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model for semiconductors in the form of Euler-Poisson equations, which contains dispersive terms with third order derivations. We deal with this kind of model in one dimensional case for general perturbations by constructing some correction functions to delete the gaps between the original solutions and the diffusion waves in L2-space, and by using a key inequality we prove the stability of diffusion waves. As the same time, the convergence rates are also obtained.

Thermal equilibrium solution to new model of bipolar hybrid quantum hydrodynamics

In this paper we study the hybrid quantum hydrodynamic model for nano-sized bipolar semiconductor devices in thermal equilibrium. By introducing a hybrid version of the Bhom potential, we derive a bipolar hybrid quantum hydrodynamic model, which is able to account for quantum effects in a localized region of the device for both electrons and holes. Coupled with Poisson equation for the electric potential, the steady-state system is regionally degenerate in its ellipticity, due to the quantum effect only in part of the device. This regional degeneracy of ellipticity makes the study more challenging. The main purpose of the paper is to investigate the existence and uniqueness of the weak solutions to this new type of equations. We first establish the uniform boundedness of the smooth solutions to the modified bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model by the variational method, then we use the compactness technique to prove the existence of weak solutions to the original hybrid system by taking hybrid limit. In particular, we account for two different kinds of hybrid behaviour. We perform the first hybrid limit when both electrons and holes behave quantum in a given region of the device, and the second one when only one carrier exhibits hybrid behaviour, whereas the other one is presented classically in the whole domain. The semi-classical limit results are also obtained. Finally, the theoretical results are tested numerically on a simple toy model.

Existence of the solution for the viscous bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model

In this paper, we investigate the existence of classical solution of the viscous bipolar quantum hydrodynamic(QHD) models for ir-rotational fluid in a periodic domain. By applying the iteration method, we prove that the viscous bipolar QHD model has a local classical solution. Then we prove this solution is global with small initial data, based on a series of a priori estimates. Finally, we obtained the inviscid limit of this viscous quantum hydrodynamic model.

Global existence and large time behavior of solutions for the bipolar quantum hydrodynamic models in the quarter plane

AbstractIn this paper, we discuss a bipolar transient quantum hydrodynamic model for charge density, current density, and electric field in the quarter plane. This model takes the form of a classical Euler–Poisson system with the additional dispersion terms caused by the quantum (Bohn) potential. We show global existence of smooth solutions for the initial boundary value problem when the initial data are near the nonlinear diffusive waves, which are different from the steady state. We also show the asymptotical behavior of the global smooth solution towards the nonlinear diffusive waves and obtain the algebraic decay rates. These results are proved by elaborate energy methods. Finally, using the Fourier analysis, we obtain the optimal convergence rates of the solutions towards the nonlinear diffusion waves. As far as we known, this is the first result about the initial boundary value problem of the one‐dimensional bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model in the quarter plane. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Quasineutral limit of bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model for semiconductors

This paper is concerned with the quasineutral limit of the bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model for semiconductors. It is rigorously proved that the strong solutions of the bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model converge to the strong solution of the so-called quantum hydrodynamic equations as the Debye length goes to zero. Moreover, we obtain the convergence of the strong solutions of bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model to the strong solution of the compressible Euler equations with damping if both the Debye length and the Planck constant go to zero simultaneously.

Long-time self-similarity of classical solutions to the bipolar quantum hydrodynamic models

In this paper, a bipolar transient quantum hydrodynamic model (BQHD) for charge density, current density and electric field is considered on the one-dimensional real line. This model takes the form of the classical Euler–Poisson system with additional dispersion caused by the quantum (Bohn) potential. We investigate the long-time behavior of the BQHD model and show the asymptotical self-similarity property of the global smooth solution. Namely, both of the charge densities tend to a nonlinear diffusion wave in large time, which is not a solution to the BQHD equation, but to the combined quasi-neutral, relaxation and semiclassical limiting model. Next, as a by-product, we can compare the large-time behavior of the bipolar quantum hydrodynamic models and of the corresponding classical bipolar hydrodynamic models. As far as we know, the nonlinear diffusion phenomena about the 1D BQHD is new.

Semiclassical and relaxation limits of bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model for semiconductors

The global in-time semiclassical and relaxation limits of the bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model for semiconductors are investigated in R 3 . We prove that the unique strong solution exists and converges globally in time to the strong solution of classical bipolar hydrodynamical equation in the process of semiclassical limit and that of the classical drift–diffusion system under the combined relaxation and semiclassical limits.

ALGEBRAIC TIME DECAY FOR THE BIPOLAR QUANTUM HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL

The initial value problem is considered in the present paper for the bipolar quantum hydrodynamic (QHD) model for semiconductors in ℝ3. The unique strong solution exists globally in time and tends to the asymptotical state with an algebraic decay rate as time goes to infinity is proved. And, the global solution of linearized bipolar QHD system decays in time at an algebraic decay rate from both above and below is shown. This means that in general we cannot get an exponential time-decay rate for bipolar QHD system, which is different from the case of unipolar QHD model (where global solutions tend to the equilibrium state at an exponential time-decay rate) and is mainly caused by the nonlinear coupling and cancelation between two carriers. Moreover, it is also shown that the nonlinear dispersion does not affect the long time asymptotic behavior, which by product gives rise to the algebraic time-decay rate of the solution of the bipolar hydrodynamical model in the semiclassical limit.

Exponential decay to a quantum hydrodynamic model for semiconductors

This paper deals with large-time behavior of solutions for a viscous bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model with third-order terms. By applying the entropy method, we prove exponential decays of solutions towards constant steady states for the one-dimensional and the multi-dimensional cases. The argument is based on a series of a priori estimates. As a byproduct, the decay of solutions for the viscous hydrodynamic model is obtained as well.

A note on boundary conditions for quantum hydrodynamic equations

The asymptotic behavior of the thermal equilibrium state of a bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model is considered. The quantum limit L → 0, L denoting a characteristic device length, is carried out rigorously. It shows that the classical assumption of charge neutrality at the boundary becomes invalid for ultra small semiconductor devices, whereas the assumption of vanishing boundary quantum effects will be confirmed. Furthermore, numerical simulations are presented, which give insight in the quantitative behavior.

Asymptotic stability and semi-classical limit for bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model

Asymptotic stability and semi-classical limit for bipolar quantum hydrodynamic model