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The results of an experimental study of organic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with luminescent layers based on two types of CdSe/CdS semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) with an average CdSe core diameter of 3 and 5 nm and a characteristic CdS shell thickness of 0.5 nm are presented. The dependences of the LED efficiency on the QD concentration are determined. The experimental data are used to determine the mechanism of electronic-excitation transfer from the organic matrix to the semiconductor QDs. Ways of optimizing the design of the LEDs in order to improve their efficiency are suggested on this basis.
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Original Russian Text © A.G. Vitukhnovskii, A.A. Vashchenko, V.S. Lebedev, R.B. Vasiliev, P.N. Brunkov, D.N. Bychkovskii, 2013, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 962–969.
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Vitukhnovskii, A.G., Vashchenko, A.A., Lebedev, V.S. et al. Mechanism of electronic-excitation transfer in organic light-emitting devices based on semiconductor quantum dots. Semiconductors 47, 971–977 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782613070245
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