Spectroscopic and device aspects of nanocrystal quantum dots

JM Pietryga, YS Park, J Lim, AF Fidler, WK Bae… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
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 …

Hot carrier photovoltaics in van der Waals heterostructures

KK Paul, JH Kim, YH Lee - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Successfully designing an ideal solar cell requires an understanding of the fundamental
physics of photoexcited hot carriers (HCs) and the underlying mechanism of unique …

Semiconductor quantum dots and quantum dot arrays and applications of multiple exciton generation to third-generation photovoltaic solar cells

AJ Nozik, MC Beard, JM Luther, M Law… - Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
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 …

Chemistry and properties of nanocrystals of different shapes

C Burda, X Chen, R Narayanan, MA El-Sayed - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
The field of nanocatalysis (in which nanoparticles are used to catalyze reactions) has
undergone an exponential growth during the past decade. Two types of studies have been …

Quantum confined colloidal nanorod heterostructures for solar-to-fuel conversion

K Wu, T Lian - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar energy conversion, particularly solar-driven chemical fuel formation, has been
intensely studied in the past decades as a potential approach for renewable energy …

Optical nonlinearities and ultrafast carrier dynamics in semiconductor nanocrystals

VI Klimov - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2000 - ACS Publications
Femtosecond transient absorption in the visible and infrared spectral ranges has been
applied to study carrier dynamics and mechanisms for resonant optical nonlinearities in …

Semiconductor quantum dots and related systems: electronic, optical, luminescence and related properties of low dimensional systems

AD Yoffe - Advances in physics, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
This review seeks to extend the scope of both the experimental and theoreticalwork carried
out since I completed my 1993 review on the electronic, optical, andto a lesser extent, the …

Spectroscopy and hot electron relaxation dynamics in semiconductor quantum wells and quantum dots

AJ Nozik - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Photoexcitation of a semiconductor with photons above the semiconductor band
gap creates electrons and holes that are out of equilibrium. The rates at which the …

Electron and hole relaxation pathways in semiconductor quantum dots

VI Klimov, DW McBranch, CA Leatherdale… - Physical Review B, 1999 - APS
Femtosecond (fs) broad-band transient absorption (TA) is used to study the intraband
relaxation and depopulation dynamics of electron and hole quantized states in CdSe …

Thermal conductivity of Fe nanofluids depending on the cluster size of nanoparticles

KS Hong, TK Hong, HS Yang - Applied Physics Letters, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Nanofluids have been attractive for the last few years with the enormous potential to improve
the efficiency of heat transfer fluids. This work focuses on the effect of the clustering of …