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As the odd equilibrium values vanish, the macroscopic
relaxation time approximation simplifies.
To approximate the odd scattering terms we introduce the
mobilities [GJK+04]
in the odd equations.
By setting
 |
(2.56) |
we get a formal correspondence between relaxation times
and mobilities for parabolic bands. If
and
have the same sign, then
is positive.
With this correspondence we get:
One possibility to model
is as a function depending
on the the local temperature
.
Hence the
equations depend in a nonlinear way on
and
.
Information about the scattering term can be encoded
into a fitting
ansatz for the mobilities, for example in the
form
with fitting parameters
.
Alternatively, we can approximate the mobilities as
functions of temperature and doping using results from
bulk Monte Carlo simulations, see Section 2.3.4.
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