A numerical scheme to model current and voltage excitation of organic light-emitting diodes

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 790-798

  Pflumm, Christof ^a   Gärtner, Christian ^b   Lemmer, Uli ^b  

^a MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current excitation; Drift diffusion model; Electric field calculation; Modeling; Organic light emitting diode (OLED); Simulation; Transient behavior; Voltage excitation

Indexed keywords

CURRENT EXCITATION; DRIFT-DIFFUSION MODEL; ELECTRIC FIELD CALCULATION; MODELING; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE (OLED); SIMULATION; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR; VOLTAGE EXCITATION;

CURRENT DENSITY; DIFFUSION; DIODES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POISSON EQUATION;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 65349104118     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.923557     Document Type: Article

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