CdTe Quantum Dots, or cadmium telluride quantum dots, are a type of semiconductor nanocrystals that have gained significant attention due to their unique optical and electronic characteristics. These ...

Recent advancements in quantum dot solar cells have led to significant improvements in their power conversion efficiency. Researchers have achieved efficiencies exceeding 16% in laboratory-scale ...

Quantum dots – nanoparticles of semiconductor material able to carry a charge – have been investigated for their solar cell potential in various materials for at least a decade and have made ...

Chinese researchers have built a perovskite quantum dot solar cell that is reportedly able to reduce trap-assisted charge carrier recombination. The device has an open-circuit voltage of 1.23 V ...

Quantum dots are widely used for their ability to emit single photons at specific wavelengths. These photons are created by ...

(Image: NASA) Quantum dots have found applications in composites, solar cells (Grätzel cells) and fluorescent biological labels (for example to trace a biological molecule) which use both the small ...

A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China has demonstrated the ability to electrically manipulate the spin filling sequence in a bilayer graphene (BLG) quantum dot (QD).

Colloidal quantum dots are solution-based nanocrystals prized for their unique light-harvesting abilities. They can illuminate, create color, harness solar energy and function as semiconductors. These ...

"Making solar cells super-efficient turns out to be very ... ones made with "quantum material" and "quantum dot" technology, ...

fluorescent labels in biomedical imaging and broadband solar cells, to mention just a few applications. The June issue of Nature Photonics has a special theme on colloidal quantum dots ...