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Title: Semiconductor quantum dots: Technological progress and future challenges

Abstract

In quantum-confined semiconductor nanostructures, electrons exhibit distinctive behavior compared with that in bulk solids. This enables the design of materials with tunable chemical, physical, electrical, and optical properties. Zero-dimensional semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) offer strong light absorption and bright narrowband emission across the visible and infrared wavelengths and have been engineered to exhibit optical gain and lasing. These properties are of interest for imaging, solar energy harvesting, displays, and communications. Here, we offer an overview of advances in the synthesis and understanding of QD nanomaterials, with a focus on colloidal QDs, and discuss their prospects in technologies such as displays and lighting, lasers, sensing, electronics, solar energy conversion, photocatalysis, and quantum information.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [6]
  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 35 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A4, Canada., ICFO–Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona 08860, Spain.
  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
  3. Chemistry Division, C-PCS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
  4. University of Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan.
  5. Technische Universitat Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany.
  6. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 35 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A4, Canada.
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1812116
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; Solar Photochemistry Program; 20200213DR
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Science Journal Volume: 373 Journal Issue: 6555; Journal ID: ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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García de Arquer, F. Pelayo, Talapin, Dmitri V., Klimov, Victor I., Arakawa, Yasuhiko, Bayer, Manfred, and Sargent, Edward H. Semiconductor quantum dots: Technological progress and future challenges. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1126/science.aaz8541.
García de Arquer, F. Pelayo, Talapin, Dmitri V., Klimov, Victor I., Arakawa, Yasuhiko, Bayer, Manfred, & Sargent, Edward H. Semiconductor quantum dots: Technological progress and future challenges. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz8541
García de Arquer, F. Pelayo, Talapin, Dmitri V., Klimov, Victor I., Arakawa, Yasuhiko, Bayer, Manfred, and Sargent, Edward H. Thu . "Semiconductor quantum dots: Technological progress and future challenges". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz8541.
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title = {Semiconductor quantum dots: Technological progress and future challenges},
author = {García de Arquer, F. Pelayo and Talapin, Dmitri V. and Klimov, Victor I. and Arakawa, Yasuhiko and Bayer, Manfred and Sargent, Edward H.},
abstractNote = {In quantum-confined semiconductor nanostructures, electrons exhibit distinctive behavior compared with that in bulk solids. This enables the design of materials with tunable chemical, physical, electrical, and optical properties. Zero-dimensional semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) offer strong light absorption and bright narrowband emission across the visible and infrared wavelengths and have been engineered to exhibit optical gain and lasing. These properties are of interest for imaging, solar energy harvesting, displays, and communications. Here, we offer an overview of advances in the synthesis and understanding of QD nanomaterials, with a focus on colloidal QDs, and discuss their prospects in technologies such as displays and lighting, lasers, sensing, electronics, solar energy conversion, photocatalysis, and quantum information.},
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year = {Thu Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Thu Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
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Semiconductor Quantum Dots: An Emerging Candidate for CO 2 Photoreduction
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Hybrid organic–inorganic inks flatten the energy landscape in colloidal quantum dot solids
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Entangled Photon Pairs from Semiconductor Quantum Dots
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Enabling Visible-Light-Driven Selective CO 2 Reduction by Doping Quantum Dots: Trapping Electrons and Suppressing H 2 Evolution
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Open-Circuit Voltage Deficit, Radiative Sub-Bandgap States, and Prospects in Quantum Dot Solar Cells
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