(Nanowerk Spotlight) Quantum dots are being intensively investigated for applications such as light-emitting diodes, solid-state lighting, lasers, solar cells, and fluorescent labels for biological ...

Quantum dots have many possible applications, but they are limited by their tendency to blink off at random intervals. Chemists have come up with a way to control this unwanted blinking without ...

Scientists have found one possible way to induce quantum dots to emit photons faster and more consistently, without their characteristic blinking. The advance could make quantum dots more sensitive as ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Recently, PL fluctuations were studied in the so-called dot-in-a-rod nanostructures, that have a similar composition (CdSe/CdS) ...

MIT chemists have come up with a way to control the unwanted blinking of quantum dots. (Courtesy: Jiaojian Shi, Weiwei Sun, and Hendrik Utzat, Keith Nelson and Moungi Bawendi, et al.) Quantum dots ...

(Nanowerk News) Quantum dots are nanoparticles of semiconductor that can be tuned to glow in a rainbow of colors. Since their discovery in the 1980s, these remarkable nanoparticles have held out ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, have found that a particular species of quantum dots that weren't ...

A team of scientists has synthesized semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, that are "nonblinking," in that they emit light steadily. Such behavior has long been a goal of scientists working ...