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D Integration of Fermi Functions
The Fermi function and its antiderivative is given by
The product
can be written as
and the corresponding antiderivative is
A usual approximation for
metal tunnel
junctions, where the Fermi energy
is much bigger than the conduction band edge,
,
is to set
,
thus
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