MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC METHODS FOR NOISE IN DEVICES

After an introduction and preamble concerning the motivation and nature of this article, we proceed to the two main divisions, Part I containing a compendium of macroscopic methods used for noise computation, and Part II comprising the underlying microscopic description. In each part there are subdivisions, dealing with particular methods like the Master-Equation approach, the Langevin approach, the impedance field and transfer impedance approach, etc. Then there are sub-sub divisions dealing with particular noise manifestations, like g-r noise, velocity-fluctuation and Brownian motion noise, transport noise, etc. Illustrative examples are included, but in-depth specific device noise computations are outside the scope of this review.