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 …

Quantum dots (QDs) with near‐infrared fluorescence (NIR) are an emerging class of QDs
with unique capabilities owing to the deeper tissue penetrability of NIR light compared with …

Infrared technologies provide tremendous value to our modern-day society. The need for
easy-to-fabricate, solution-processable, tunable infrared active optoelectronic materials has …

This review summarizes recent progress in the design and applications of cadmium-free
quantum dots (Cd-free QDs), with an emphasis on their role in biophotonics and …

Nanomedicine has made great progress toward the diagnosis and treatment of diseases by
exploiting physicochemical properties and biological interactions of nanomaterials that differ …

Nonthermal plasmas have emerged as a viable synthesis technique for nanocrystal
materials. Inherently solvent and ligand-free, nonthermal plasmas offer the ability to …

Since their inception 18 years ago, electrically driven colloidal quantum-dot light-emitting
devices (QD-LEDs) have increased in external quantum efficiency from less than 0.01% to …

Silicon has long been established as the material of choice for the microelectronics industry.
This is not yet true in photonics, where the limited degrees of freedom in material design …

Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs, ie, crystalline nanoparticles) have become an important class
of materials with great potential for applications ranging from medicine to electronic and …

Semiconductors show dramatic quantization effects when charge carriers (electrons and
holes) are confined by potential barriers to small regions of space where the dimensions of …