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 …

Over the past three decades a new spectroscopic technique with unique possibilities has
emerged. Based on coherent and time‐resolved detection of the electric field of ultrashort …

Time-resolved, pulsed terahertz spectroscopy has developed into a powerful tool to study
charge carrier dynamics in semiconductors and semiconductor structures over the past …

Halide perovskites (HPs) are potential game-changing materials for a broad spectrum of
optoelectronic applications ranging from photovoltaics, light-emitting devices, lasers to …

Rapid hot‐carrier cooling is a major loss channel in solar cells. Thermodynamic calculations
reveal a 66% solar conversion efficiency for single junction cells (under 1 sun illumination) if …

Hot-carrier solar cells can overcome the Shockley-Queisser limit by harvesting excess
energy from hot carriers. Inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals are considered prime …

Colloidal heteronanocrystals (HNCs) can be regarded as solution-grown inorganic–organic
hybrid nanomaterials, since they consist of inorganic nanoparticles that are coated with a …

Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are nanometer-sized particles of semiconductor dispersed
in a solvent with the aid of a stabilizing ligand. CQDs' physical dimensions and shape dictate …

Successfully designing an ideal solar cell requires an understanding of the fundamental
physics of photoexcited hot carriers (HCs) and the underlying mechanism of unique …

The subject of this review is the colloidal quantum dot (QD) and specifically the interaction of
the QD with proximate molecules. It covers various functions of these molecules, including (i) …