11. Resume

The ever ongoing feature size reduction in state-of-the-art technology causes a continuous need for refinement and extension of transport models used in technology computer aided design (TCAD). Two such areas of refinements were the topic of this thesis.

The first half of this thesis dealt with the development and implementation of higher order moment methods for the solution of the Boltzmann equation. In the second half of this thesis we studied and compared several different approaches to the simulation of resonant tunneling diodes.

In this chapter we give first a detailed scientific resume and then finish the thesis with some closing words.