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 …

BACKGROUND Semiconductor materials feature optical and electronic properties that can
be engineered through their composition and crystal structure. The use of semiconductors …

Photodetectors that are sensitive in the shortwave-infrared (SWIR) range (1–2 µm) are of
great interest for applications such as machine vision, autonomous driving and three …

The development of electronics is increasingly dependent on low-cost, flexible, solution-
processed semiconductors. Colloidal quantum dots are solution-processed semiconducting …

Quantum information processing—which relies on spin defects or single-photon emission—
has shown quantum advantage in proof-of-principle experiments including microscopic …

Due to thermal carriers generated by a narrow mid-infrared energy gap, cooling is always
necessary to achieve ideal photodetection. In quantum dot (QD), the electron thermal …

Broadband photodetection (PD) covering the deep ultraviolet to near-infrared (200–1000
nm) range is significant and desirable for various optoelectronic designs. Herein, we employ …

All-inorganic CsPbI3 perovskite quantum dots have received substantial research interest
for photovoltaic applications because of higher efficiency compared to solar cells using other …

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 …

Commercial infrared (IR) photodetectors based on epitaxial growth inorganic
semiconductors, eg InGaAs and HgCdTe, suffer from high fabrication cost, poor compatibility …