The annual increases in global energy consumption, along with its environmental issues
and concerns, are playing significant roles in the massive sustainable and renewable global …

In the ever-increasing energy demand scenario, the development of novel photovoltaic (PV)
technologies is considered to be one of the key solutions to fulfil the energy request. In this …

Energy is essential for economic development and growth. With the rapid growth of
development and the drive to expand the economy, society demands more electricity …

Infrared multispectral imaging is attracting great interest with the increasing demand for
sensitive, low-cost and scalable devices that can distinguish coincident spectral information …

BACKGROUND The Information Age was founded on the semiconductor revolution, marked
by the growth of high-purity semiconductor single crystals. The resultant design and …

Sunlight is the most abundant and inexhaustible energy source on earth. However, its low
energy density, dispersibility and intermittent nature make its direct utilization with industrial …

A two-step ligand-exchange strategy is developed, in which the long-carbon-chain ligands
on all-inorganic perovskite (CsPbX3, X= Br, Cl) quantum dots (QDs) with halide-ion-pair …

The field of nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs) is already more than 30 years old, and yet
continuing interest in these structures is driven by both the fascinating physics emerging …

All nanomaterials share a common feature of large surface-to-volume ratio, making their
surfaces the dominant player in many physical and chemical processes. Surface ligands …

Bandtail states in disordered semiconductor materials result in losses in open-circuit voltage
(V oc) and inhibit carrier transport in photovoltaics. For colloidal quantum dot (CQD) films …