Advances in solar photovoltaics are urgently needed to increase the performance and
reduce the cost of harvesting solar power. Solution-processed photovoltaics are cost …

Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

Colloidal quantum dot (CQD) optoelectronics offers a compelling combination of low‐cost,
large‐area solution processing, and spectral tunability through the quantum size effect …

The mean-field treatment of electron-nuclear interaction results in many qualitative
breakdowns in the time-dependent Kohn-Sham (TDKS) density functional theory. Examples …

Quantum confinement can dramatically slow down electron-phonon relaxation in
nanoclusters. Known as the phonon bottleneck, the effect remains elusive. Using a state-of …

Charge carrier trap** is an important phenomenon in nanocrystal (NC) decay dynamics
because it reduces photoluminescence (PL) quantum efficiencies and obscures efforts to …

In the 1990s, nanoparticles and quantum dots began to be used in optical, electronic, and
biological applications. Now they are being studied for use in solid-state quantum …

We present a framework validated using both modeling and experiment to predict do**
in CQD films. In the ionic semiconductors widely deployed in CQD films, the framework …

CdSe nanocrystals of well‐defined sizes (so‐called magic‐size clusters, MSCs) have been
grown with progressively larger sizes. During the synthesis, the relative populations of the …

We investigate the impact of ligands on the morphology, electronic structure, and optical
response of the Cd33Se33 cluster, which overlaps in size with the smallest synthesized …