Uniqueness and regularity of weak solutions of a drift–diffusion system for perovskite solar cells

Abstract We establish a novel uniqueness result for an instationary drift–diffusion model for perovskite solar cells. This model for vacancy-assisted charge transport uses Fermi–Dirac statistics for electrons and holes and Blakemore statistics for the mobile ionic vacancies in the perovskite. Existence of weak solutions and their boundedness were proved in a previous work. For the uniqueness proof, we establish improved integrability of the gradients of the charge carrier densities. Based on estimates obtained in the previous paper, we consider suitably regularized continuity equations with partly frozen arguments and apply the regularity results for scalar quasilinear elliptic equations by Meinlschmidt & Rehberg (Evol Equ Control Theory 5(1):147–184, 2016).