Stream functions comprised of stream vectors and stream potentials are introduced to represent electron and hole current densities in a semiconductor. These stream functions satisfy electron and hole current continuity equations individually for general cases involving, for example, transient behavior and recombination-generation processes. The terminal currents are expressed in terms of the stream functions. The nonuniqueness property of the stream functions is discussed briefly.
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