The electronic and optical properties of colloidal quantum dots, including the wavelengths of light that they can absorb and emit, depend on the size of the quantum dots. These properties have been exploited in a number of applications including optical detection, solar energy harvesting and biological research. Here, we report the self-assembly of quantum dot complexes using cadmium telluride ...

High particle uniformity, high photoluminescence quantum yields, narrow and symmetric emission spectral lineshapes and minimal single-dot emission intermittency (known as blinking) have been recognized as universal requirements for the successful use of colloidal quantum dots in nearly all optical applications. However, synthesizing samples that simultaneously meet all these four criteria has p...

in this paper, we present a simple method for preparation of graphene-zno nanocomposites (g-zno). the method is based on thermal treatment of the graphene oxide (go)/zno paste which reduces the graphene oxide into the graphene and leads to the formation of the g-zno nanocomposite. the structure, morphology and optical properties of synthesized nanocomposites are characterized with xrd, fesem, f...

Quantum dots in semiconductor heterostructures provide one of the most flexible platforms for the study of quantum phenomena at the nanoscale. The surging interest in using quantum dots for quantum computation is forcing researchers to rethink fabrication and operation methods, to obtain highly tunable dots in spin-free host materials, such as silicon. Borselli and colleagues report in Nanotech...

Due to the unique optical properties like high brightness and narrow emission bands of Quantum dots, it is used as simple fluorescence materials in bio-imaging, immunoassays, microarrays, and other applications. To easy invistigate cell lines that overexpressed somtostatin receptors, somatostatin (SST) was conjugated with Quantum dots carrying PEG amine (Qdots-PEG-NH2). The conjugation of SST t...

Due to the unique optical properties like high brightness and narrow emission bands of Quantum dots, it is used as simple fluorescence materials in bio-imaging, immunoassays, microarrays, and other applications. To easy invistigate cell lines that overexpressed somtostatin receptors, somatostatin (SST) was conjugated with Quantum dots carrying PEG amine (Qdots-PEG-NH2). The conjugation of SST t...

InAs quantum dots embedded in InGaAs quantum well (DWELL: dots-in-the-well) structures grown on nanopatterned GaAs pyramids and planar GaAs(001) surface are comparatively investigated. Photoluminescence (PL) measurements demonstrate that the DWELL structure grown on the GaAs pyramids exhibits a broad quantum well PL band (full width at half-maximum ∼ 90 meV) and a higher quantum dot emission ef...

Q uantum dots (nanocrystals) have found applications in transistors, medical imaging,and solar cells, since they have band gaps that can be tuned into the far infrared region. This tuning is typically difficult to achieve with traditional semiconductor materials. The band gap tuning and self-assembly into a variety of large two-dimensional & three-dimensional superlattices makes them ideally su...

LLE Review, Volume 91 139 Introduction A quantum dot is an artificially created semiconductor structure in the size range of 5 to 100 nm. As a whole, it behaves like an atom since the quantum effects of the confined electrons are enlarged with respect to the interactions of the electrons inside each atom. Since the conception of quantum dots in the early 1980s, the study of their physical prope...