Method of Computer Simulation of Thermal Processes in Optoelectronic Devices

Abstract

Taking into account the functional and design features of optoelectronic devices, this paper proposes to divide the process of developing their thermal macromodels into several stages related to the idealization of the design and the purpose of isothermal volumes. The authors also considered the principle of transition to topological thermal models of structural elements of an optoelectronic device. The paper studies the features of replacing the calculations of heat transfer processes in an optoelectronic device with calculations of electrical processes in the corresponding circuits based on the electrothermal analogy. The material of this work is presented as a method of hierarchical computer modeling of thermal processes in optoelectronic devices