The field of colloidal synthesis of semiconductors emerged 40 years ago and has reached a
certain level of maturity thanks to the use of nanocrystals as phosphors in commercial …

Nanocrystals (NCs) are one of the few nanotechnologies to have attained mass market
applications with their use as light sources for displays. This success relies on Cd-and In …

Advances in the accuracy and efficiency of first-principles electronic structure calculations
have allowed detailed studies of the energetics of materials under high pressures. At the …

Among materials produced as colloidal quantum dots (CQDs), HgTe has a special status
being the only material covering the whole infrared range from the visible to the THz (0.7 …

Transferring nanocrystals (NCs) from the laboratory environment toward practical
applications has raised new challenges. HgTe appears as the most spectrally tunable …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses structural transitions in the group IV, III–V, and II–
VI semiconductors under pressure. The most preferred technique of structural transitions is …

Chiral crystals, characterized by rotation, screw rotation, and translation symmetries are
abundant in nature. The existence of Kramers–Weyl fermions (KWFs) at the time‐reversal …

The confinement in colloidal HgTe nanocrystals enables this material to be promising for
colloidal optoelectronics over a wide range of energies, from the THz spectral range up to …

A concise description of models and quantitative parameters in structural chemistry and their
interrelations, with 280 tables and> 3000 references giving the most up-to-date experimental …

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a remarkably versatile material, with diverse tailored morphologies for a
variety of applications. This chapter delves into the exploration of various ZnO morphologies …