In the latest years, a great effort has been dedicated to the fabrication and experimental analysis of coupled quantum dots arrays[1,2]. From the applications point of view, this nanosystems have a great potential to be used in quantum dot lasers and memory devices. The simplest system to study is a single pair of coupled quantum dots forming a molecule. It is clear that this system is of funda...

This study fabricates the optically active uniform SiGe/Si multiple quantum well (MQW) nanorod and nanodot arrays from the Si0.4Ge0.6/Si MQWs using nanosphere lithography (NSL) combined with the reactive ion etching (RIE) process. Compared to the as-grown sample, we observe an obvious blueshift in photoluminescence (PL) spectra for the SiGe/Si MQW nanorod and nanodot arrays, which can be attrib...

Vertically aligned single crystalline ZnO nanorod arrays, approximately 3 μm in length and 50-450 nm in diameter are grown by a simple solution approach on a Zn foil substrate. CdS and CdSe colloidal quantum dots are assembled onto ZnO nanorods array using water-soluble nanocrystals capped as-synthesized with a short-chain bifuncional linker thioglycolic acid. The solar cells co-sensitized with...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are nanoscale digital logic constructs that use electrons in arrays of quantum dots to carry out binary operations. In this paper, a basic building block for QCA will be proposed. The proposed basic building block can be customized to implement classical gates, such as XOR and XNOR gates, and reversible gates, such as CNOT and Toffoli gates, with less cell co...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is a digital logic architecture that uses single electrons in arrays of quantum dots to perform binary operations. A QCA latch is an elementary building block which can be used to build shift registers and logic devices for clocked QCA architectures. We discuss the operation of a QCA latch and a shift register and present an analysis of the types and properti...

Nano-branched rutile TiO2 nanorod arrays were grown on F:SnO2 conductive glass (FTO) by a facile, two-step wet chemical synthesis process at low temperature. The length of the nanobranches was tailored by controlling the growth time, after which CdS quantum dots were deposited on the nano-branched TiO2 arrays using the successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction method to make a photoanode f...

The UNSW node of the Hot Carrier Solar Cell project is investigating absorbers which slow the rate of carrier cooling an essential element of a successful cell. This work includes modelling the limiting efficiencies of cells using real material properties and modelling the phonon dispersions of ordered arrays of quantum dots. The object of the latter is to determine the potential to modify the ...

Recent progress has shown that the dramatically increased number of parameters become a major issue in tuning multi-quantum dot devices. The complicated interactions between quantum dots and gate electrodes cause manual process to no longer be efficient. Fortunately, machine learning techniques can automate speed up simple systems. In this letter, we extend tune multi-dot We propose an automate...