• Media type: Text; Report; E-Book
  • Title: p-Laplace thermistor modeling of electrothermal feedback in organic semiconductors
  • Contributor: Liero, Matthias [Author]; Koprucki, Thomas [Author]; Fischer, Axel [Author]; Scholz, Reinhard [Author]; Glitzky, Annegret [Author]
  • Published: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics publication server, 2015
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2082
  • Keywords: 80M12 ; p-Laplace -- stationary thermistor model -- nonlinear coupled system -- finite-volume approximation -- existence and boundedness -- self-heating -- Arrhenius-like conductivity law -- organic light-emitting diode ; 35G60 ; 35D30 ; article ; 80A20 ; 35Q79 ; 35J92 ; 65M08 ; 35J57
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  • Description: In large-area Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) spatially inhomogeneous luminance at high power due to inhomogeneous current flow and electrothermal feedback can be observed. To describe these self-heating effects in organic semiconductors we present a stationary thermistor model based on the heat equation for the temperature coupled to a p-Laplace-type equation for the electrostatic potential with mixed boundary conditions. The p-Laplacian describes the non-Ohmic electrical behavior of the organic material. Moreover, an Arrhenius-like temperature dependency of the electrical conductivity is considered. We introduce a finite-volume scheme for the system and discuss its relation to recent network models for OLEDs. In two spatial dimensions we derive a priori estimates for the temperature and the electrostatic potential and prove the existence of a weak solution by Schauder's fixed point theorem.