The uniqueness of steady sonic–subsonic solution to hydrodynamic model for semiconductors

In this paper, we study the uniqueness of the stationary sonic–subsonic solution to the isentropic hydrodynamic model of semiconductors with sonic boundary. We provide a new method to improve the proof of the uniqueness of the steady-state sonic–subsonic solution, even for the general isentropic case. In detail, we apply the exponential variation method combining a series of modifications with respect to the degeneracy of electrons at the boundary. The proposed method in the present paper is much simpler and perfecter than the existing methods.