Project Overview
The AEVIOM project is a "Small or medium-scale focused Research Project", funded by the Information and Communication (ICT) program of the European Commission's 7th Framework. AEVIOM started on January 15, 2008, and will run for 3 years.
The aim of the AEVIOM project is to develop a powerful numerical simulation tool for achieving breakthroughs in white OLED technology. The underlying comprehensive model will be validated experimentally, and applied to advanced OLED device structures in order to enable breakthroughs in white OLED efficiency, lifetime, and manufacturing cost.
The AEVIOM consortium consists of 9 partners: five university groups, two large industrial laboratories and two small/medium enterprises, from 4 European countries. Each AEVIOM partner is a world-renowned specialist in its particular field of science and technology. Their complementary skills include advanced numerical computing, OLED device manufacturing and experimental opto-electronic studies, and the development of user-friendly simulation tools.
Within the project, a "second-generation OLED device model" will be developed, within which the full three-dimensional character of the charge transport, recombination, and excitonic processes is taken into account. Thereby, the disordered nature of the organic materials is treated more properly than in today's "first-generation OLED device models", in which the current density is assumed to be uniform.
The resulting "integrated" model will describe the complete interplay between OLED layer structure, charge carrier mobilities, excitonic processes and light-outcoupling. The model will be validated experimentally, and will lead to insights and recommendations that lead to breakthroughs in OLED performance. Thereby, the AEVIOM project will enable Europe to be at the forefront of organic LED technology for Lighting applications.
