Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesResonant Energy Transfer from Organics to Quantum Dots and Carrier Multiplication

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Resonant Energy Transfer from Organics to Quantum Dots and Carrier Multiplication"
by Tang Shu-Pian
in the Proceedings of the 2009 Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference
March 2009

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE\´s Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Resonant Energy Transfer from Organics to Quantum Dots and Carrier Multiplication"
Vladimir M. Agranovich and Gerard Czajkowski
Submitted to ArXiV database, Cornell University Library: arXiv:0801.3794v1
January 2008

It was shown in the recent experiments that the hybrid organic/inorganic resonant structures could provide a flexible materials platform aimed at the design of novel light emitting devices. The applications of hybrid structures for photovoltaic solar cell can also be useful. We pay attention in this note that the resonant energy transfer in hybrid structure from the organic thin layer to the semiconductor nanostructures can drastically increase the intensity of the free carrier generation. To demonstrate this idea we use the results of recently published paper by Zhang et al. demonstrating the highly efficient resonance energy transfer from J-aggregates layer to semiconductor nano-crystals. It is known that the semiconductor nanocrystals with small energy gap represent a promising route to increased solar conversion in single-junction photovoltai- cells. We argue that the using of nanocrystals with small energy gap in the hybrid organic/inorganic structures similar to create in can increase tens times the total intensity of carrier multiplication. The organic part in such hybrid structures will play a role of the peculiar organic concentrator of the light energy.