Ultra-fast Semiconductor Carrier Transport Simulation on the Grid

We consider the problem of computer simulation of ultra-fast semiconductor carrier transport. The mathematical description of this problem includes quantum kinetic equations whose approximate solving is a computationally very intensive problem. In order to reduce the computational cost we use recently developed Monte Carlo methods as a numerical approach. We study intra-collision field effect, i.e. effective change of phonon energy, which depends on the field direction and the evolution time. In order to obtain results for different evolution times in a reasonable time-frame, we implement simulation on the computational grid. We split the task into thousands of subtasks (jobs) which are sent to different grid sites to be executed. In this paper we present new results for inhomogeneous case in the presence of electric field, and we describe our grid implementation scheme.

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