CdTe/CdS photovoltaic (PV) modules have become the lowest-cost producer of solar electricity, despite working at lower efficiency (up to 16.5%) than crystalline silicon cells [1]. Polycrystalline CdTe cells are more efficient comparing to their single crystalline counterparts. However, the charge transport mechanisms responsible of this effect are not clear [2]. In this communication, we report...

The availability of Te is constrained by the production rate of its main parent compound (copper) and a debate is going on related to the potential supply of Te for very large scale CdTe PV deployment. However, recent investigations point to the existence of Te-rich ores in several places of the world that are likely to allow economic recovery of Te, independently of the production of copper. C...

BACKGROUND Fat grafting, or lipofilling, represent frequent clinically used entities. The fate of these transplants is still not predictable, whereas only few animal models are available for further research. Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanocrystals which can be conveniently tracked in vivo due to photoluminescence. METHODS Fat grafts in cluster form were labeled with cadmium-telluri...

A new nanoprobe was designed for the fluorescence imaging of fluoride anion (F(-)) in living cells with high sensitivity and selectivity. The design is based on the fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between CdTe quantum dots (CdTe QDs) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) through the formation of cyclic esters between phenylborinic acid and diol. In the presence of F(-), the boronate este...

The behaviors of 15 kinds of metal ions in the thiol-capped CdTe quantum dots (QDs)-H2O2 chemiluminescence (CL) reaction were investigated in detail. The results showed that Ag+, Cu2+ and Hg2+ could inhibit CdTe QDs and H2O2 CL reaction. A novel CL method for the selective determination of Ag+, Cu2+ and Hg2+ was developed, based on their inhibition of the reaction of CdTe QDs and H2O2. Under th...

Large area detectors capable of operating with high detection efficiency at energies above 30 keV are required in many contemporary X-ray imaging applications. The properties of high Z compound semiconductors, such as CdTe, make them ideally suitable to these applications. The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has developed a small pixel CdTe detector with 80×80 pixels on a 250 μm pitch. Hist...

Significant advancement in thin-film cadmium telluride (CdTe) deposition techniques in recent years has made this material attractive for the development of low-cost large area detector. Here we evaluate the intrinsic performance of the detector for a range of energies relevant to diagnostic imaging applications, such as fluoroscopy. The input x-ray spectra for a set of tube potentials ranging ...

This work reported for the first time the anodic electrochemiluminescence (ECL) of CdTe quantum dots (QDs) in aqueous system and its analytical application based on the ECL energy transfer to analytes. The CdTe QDs were modified with mercaptopropionic acid to obtain water-soluble QDs and stable and intensive anodic ECL emission with a peak value at +1.17 V (vs Ag/AgCl) in pH 9.3 PBS at an indiu...

Au nanoparticles (Au NPs)/CdTe/CdS QDs nanocomposite films were fabricated by deposition of Au NPs and layer-by-layer self-assembly of colloidal CdTe/CdS QDs. Photoluminescence (PL) spectra showed that Au NPs incorporation resulted in an increase of PL intensity about 16-fold compared with that of the samples without Au NPs. PL enhancement of Au NPs/CdTe/CdS QDs nanocomposite films can be contr...