Relaxation-time approximations of the collisional operator of the Boltzmann transport equation are used for simulating carrier transport in silicon semiconductors. Solutions of these kinetic models are obtained through the use of exact-integral representations in the stationary and homogeneous...

During these years several hydrodynamic-like models for simulating carrier transport in semiconductors have been developed. In this paper we check the consistency of these models with the Onsager Reciprocity Principle, which is one of the fundamental principles of Linear Irreversible...