Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals: From bottom-up nanoarchitectonics to energy harvesting applications

A Dalui, K Ariga, S Acharya - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have been extensively investigated owing to
their unique properties induced by the quantum confinement effect. The advent of colloidal …

Engineering of semiconductor nanocrystals for light emitting applications

F Todescato, I Fortunati, A Minotto, R Signorini… - Materials, 2016 - mdpi.com
Semiconductor nanocrystals are rapidly spreading into the display and lighting markets.
Compared with liquid crystal and organic LED displays, nanocrystalline quantum dots (QDs) …

Optically Pumped Terahertz Amplitude Modulation in Type-II Ge QD/Si Heterostructures Grown via Molecular Beam Epitaxy

S Ghosh, A Mukherjee, S Singh, SK Ray… - ACS Applied Optical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
This article explores group-IV germanium (Ge) quantum dots (QDs) on silicon-on-insulator
(SOI) grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) in order to explore their optical behavior in …

Recent advances in zinc‐containing colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals for optoelectronic and energy conversion applications

D Chen, A Wang, MA Buntine, G Jia - ChemElectroChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), especially cadmium (Cd)‐and lead (Pb)‐
containing ones, have been proved to be the promising materials for photoelectronic energy …

Excited-state charge transfer and extended charge separation within covalently tethered type-II CdSe/CdTe quantum dot heterostructures: Colloidal and multilayered …

CR McGranahan, GE Wolfe, A Falca… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We used N, N′-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) coupling chemistry to synthesize (1)
heterostructures of CdSe and CdTe quantum dots (QDs) in colloidal dispersions and (2) …

Ultrafast, asymmetric charge transfer and slow charge recombination in porphyrin/CNT composites demonstrated by time-domain atomistic simulation

R Sarkar, M Habib, S Pal, OV Prezhdo - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The versatile photochemical properties of porphyrin molecules make them excellent
candidates for solar energy applications. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) exhibit superior charge …

Machine learning classification of binary semiconductor heterostructures

S Rom, A Ghosh, A Halder, TS Dasgupta - Physical Review Materials, 2021 - APS
Heterostructures of two semiconductors are at the heart of semiconductor devices with
tremendous technological importance. The prediction and designing of semiconductor …

Charge Transfer Modulation in the α-CsPbI3/WS2 Heterojunction via Band-Tailoring with Elemental Ni Do**

H Bhatt, R Saha, T Goswami, S CK… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The performance of photovoltaic devices relies on the light-absorbing capability of the
absorber layer and the lifetime of excited-state charge carriers. Combining two-dimensional …

Boosting quantum efficiency and suppressing self-absorption in CdS quantum dots through interface engineering

S Das, B Bhattacharyya, A Mohanty, P Mukherjee… - Nanoscale, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Applications of photoluminescence (PL) from semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have
faced the dichotomy of excitonic emission being susceptible to self-absorption and shallow …

Two-dimensional hydrogenated/fluorinated graphyne/graphyne-like BN van der Waals heterostructures and their potential application in ultraviolet photodetection: A …

Y Zhang, B Huang, Q Dong, X Zhang, C Chen… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Constructing van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) with staggered type-II band
alignment, thereby prompting the charge separation rate and enhancing the …