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We predict an efficient electronic energy transfer from the two-dimensional Wannier-Mott excitons confined in a semiconductor quantum well to the optically active organic molecules of the nearby medium (substrate and/or overlayer). The energy transfer mechanism is of the Förster type and, at semiconductor-organic distances of several nanometers, can easily be as fast as 100 ps, which is about an order of magnitude shorter than the average exciton lifetime in an isolated quantum well. Under such conditions, the Wannier-Mott exciton luminescence is quenched and the organic luminescence is efficiently turned on. Our calculations, combining a microscopic quantum mechanical exciton model with a macroscopic electrodynamic description of the organic medium, take into account the dielectric constant discontinuities and can be applied to any organic-inorganic multilayer structure.
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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 66, No. 11, 714–717 (10 December 1997)
Published in English in the original Russian journal. Edited by Steve Torstveit.
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Agranovich, V.M., La Rocca, G.C. & Bassani, F. Efficient electronic energy transfer from a semiconductor quantum well to an organic material. Jetp Lett. 66, 748–751 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567592
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