The aim of this paper is to present a new scaling which is appropriate for
modeling reverse biased semiconductor devices with moderately high applied
potential and its asymptotic analysis. This scaling was motivated by the mo
deling of oxygen sensors. It is compared to the ones leading to (a) electro
neutrality, (b) the existence of a depletion zone. With our scaling such a
zone may appear within a boundary layer. A particular attention is paid to
the qualitative dependence of the asymptotic solution to the boundary value
of the concentration of carrier.