Electronic and excitonic processes in multilayer organic light emitting devices incorporating PbSe quantum dots

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 414-423

  Farghal, Ahmed E ^a   Wageh, S ^a   El Azm, Atef Abou ^a  

^a MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Exciton; Hybrid; Modeling; Quantum dot

Indexed keywords

CONTACT BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION PROCESS; EXCITON FORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HYBRID; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPERATION MECHANISM; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; ORGANIC/INORGANIC; QUANTUM DOT; RECOMBINATION PROCESS; RECOMBINATION RATE; SCHOTTKY CONTACTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXCITONS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POISSON EQUATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84855940913     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-011-0376-5     Document Type: Article

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