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

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 …

Multiple exciton generation, the creation of two electron-hole pairs from one high-energy
photon, is well established in bulk semiconductors, but assessments of the efficiency of this …

The demand for clean energy technologies has spurred academic interest in new and
efficient ways to capture and store sunlight. 1-6 Concerted efforts are now being directed …

Multiple exciton generation in quantum dots (QDs) has been intensively studied as a way to
enhance solar energy conversion by utilizing the excess energy in the absorbed photons …

Quantum confinement of electronic particles (negative electrons and positive holes) in
nanocrystals produces unique optical and electronic properties that have the potential to …

Multiple exciton generation (MEG) in quantum dots (QDs) and impact ionization (II) in bulk
semiconductors are processes that describe producing more than one electron− hole pair …

The properties of colloidal quantum-confined semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), including
zero-dimensional (0D) quantum dots, 1D nanorods, 2D nanoplatelets, and their …

Nanomaterials and nanostructures hold promising potency to enhance the performance of
solar cells by improving both light trap** and photo-carrier collection. Meanwhile these …