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    Resolvent estimates in W-1,p related to strongly coupled linear parabolic systems with coupled nonsmooth capacities
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2006) Glitzky, Annegret; Hünlich, Rolf
    We investigate linear parabolic systems with coupled nonsmooth capacities and mixed boundary conditions. We prove generalized resolvent estimates in W-1,p spaces. The method is an appropriate modification of a technique introduced by Agmon to obtain Lp estimates for resolvents of elliptic differential operators in the case of smooth boundary conditions. Moreover, we establish an existence and uniqueness result.
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    Analysis of electronic models for solar cells including energy resolved defect densities
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2010) Glitzky, Annegret
    We introduce an electronic model for solar cells including energy resolved defect densities. The resulting drift-diffusion model corresponds to a generalized van Roosbroeck system with additional source terms coupled with ODEs containing space and energy as parameters for all defect densities. The system has to be considered in heterostructures and with mixed boundary conditions from device simulation. We give a weak formulation of the problem. If the boundary data and the sources are compatible with thermodynamic equilibrium the free energy along solutions decays monotonously. In other cases it may be increasing, but we estimate its growth. We establish boundedness and uniqueness results and prove the existence of a weak solution. This is done by considering a regularized problem, showing its solvability and the boundedness of its solutions independent of the regularization level.
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    Stationary solutions to an energy model for semiconductor devices where the equations are defined on different domains
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2006) Glitzky, Annegret; Hünlich, Rolf
    We discuss a stationary energy model from semiconductor modelling. We accept the more realistic assumption that the continuity equations for electrons and holes have to be considered only in a subdomain $Omega_0$ of the domain of definition $Omega$ of the energy balance equation and of the Poisson equation. Here $Omega_0$ corresponds to the region of semiconducting material, $OmegasetminusOmega_0$ represents passive layers. Metals serving as contacts are modelled by Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove a local existence and uniqueness result for the two-dimensional stationary energy model. For this purpose we derive a $W^1,p$-regularity result for solutions of systems of elliptic equations with different regions of definition and use the Implicit Function Theorem.
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    Analysis of a spin-polarized drift-diffusion model
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2008) Glitzky, Annegret
    We introduce a spin-polarized drift-diffusion model for semiconductor spintronic devices. This coupled system of continuity equations and a Poisson equation with mixed boundary conditions in all equations has to be considered in heterostructures. We give a weak formulation of this problem and prove an existence and uniqueness result for the instationary problem. If the boundary data is compatible with thermodynamic equilibrium the free energy along the solution decays monotonously and exponentially to its equilibrium value. In other cases it may be increasing but we estimate its growth. Moreover we give upper and lower estimates for the solution.
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    Existence of bounded steady state solutions to spin-polarized drift-diffusion systems
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2008) Glitzky, Annegret; Gärtner, Klaus
    We study a stationary spin-polarized drift-diffusion model for semiconductor spintronic devices. This coupled system of continuity equations and a Poisson equation with mixed boundary conditions in all equations has to be considered in heterostructures. In 3D we prove the existence and boundedness of steady states. If the Dirichlet conditions are compatible or nearly compatible with thermodynamic equilibrium the solution is unique. The same properties are obtained for a space discretized version of the problem: Using a Scharfetter-Gummel scheme on 3D boundary conforming Delaunay grids we show existence, boundedness and, for small applied voltages, the uniqueness of the discrete solution.
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    An electronic model for solar cells including active interfaces and energy resolved defect densities
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2011) Glitzky, Annegret
    We introduce an electronic model for solar cells taking into account heterostructures with active interfaces and energy resolved volume and interface trap densities. The model consists of continuity equations for electrons and holes with thermionic emission transfer conditions at the interface and of ODEs for the trap densities with energy level and spatial position as parameters, where the right hand sides contain generation-recombination as well as ionization reactions. This system is coupled with a Poisson equation for the electrostatic potential. We show the thermodynamic correctness of the model and prove a priori estimates for the solutions to the evolution system. Moreover, existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the problem are proven. For this purpose we solve a regularized problem and verify bounds of the corresponding solution not depending on the regularization level.