A COMPARISON OF SOME APPROXIMATIONS FOR THE FERMI-DIRAC INTEGRAL OF ORDER-1 2/

Authors
WONG SA MCALISTER SP LI ZM
Citation
Sa. Wong et al., A COMPARISON OF SOME APPROXIMATIONS FOR THE FERMI-DIRAC INTEGRAL OF ORDER-1 2/, Solid-state electronics, 37(1), 1994, pp. 61-64
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Physics, Applied","Physics, Condensed Matter
Journal title
Solid-state electronics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00381101
Volume
37
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
61 - 64
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-1101(1994)37:1<61:ACOSAF>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Numerous approximations of the Fermi Dirac integral F j(x) appear in t he literature for j = 1/2. We compare some of these approximations and suggest which ones should be used to optimise both accuracy and speed of computation in an application of device modeling.