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Researchers improve quantum-dot solar-cell efficiency

...Stanford University researchers are mixing in new ingredients. Solar cells made with quantum dots could have higher efficiency. Photo credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET News Chemical... Read more

23 February, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

Quantum dots boost graphene's photodetector dreams

...Barcelona have built a super-sensitive photodetector by combining graphene with semiconducting quantum dots that outperforms other graphene based devices by a billion times. Speaking... Read more

18 May, 2012

Quantum computing: Beyond computing's final frontier

...s old friend silicon, as the University of Washington's Bacon argues. Quantum dots, another solid state approach to quantum computing using silicon, has the... Read more

24 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas
Quantum Dot Size Calculator 1.0

Quantum Dot Size Calculator 1.0

This app calculates the size, extinction coefficient and concentration of semiconductor quantum dots from data from the particles' UV/vis absorption spectrum. It is... Read more

4 March, 2011

Toshiba shows practical quantum cryptography

...been developing special hardware to create and analyse single photon transactions by quantum dots -- effectively artificial atoms integrated with control circuitry -- the current cryptographic equipment... Read more

13 December, 2004 by Rupert Goodwins

Quantum dots lead to entanglement breakthrough

...used in fast logic and optoelectronics, the device's key components are quantum dots of indium arsenide 12nm in diameter and 6nm high. "The indium... Read more

11 January, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

Night goggles get nano-vision

...of Texas. The two universities announced that researchers have developed sensors with quantum dots that can detect infrared radiation at the same levels as sensors... Read more

17 June, 2004 by Michael Kanellos
Nano researchers put solar cell on paper

Nano researchers put solar cell on paper

...hoped, these vials hold the seeds for future solar cells. Inside are quantum dots — crystals that are only a few nanometres in size — made from... Read more

6 May, 2010 by Martin LaMonica

British scientists create atom-thick transistor

...their paper on the subject is entitled Chaotic Dirac Billiard in Graphene Quantum Dots. Graphene is a one-atom-thick lattice of carbon atoms, organised... Read more

21 April, 2008 by David Meyer

IBM hopes to use DNA to build chips

...structures as bread boards on which to assemble carbon nanotubes, silicon nanowires, quantum dots," said Greg Wallraff, an IBM scientist and a lithography and materials... Read more

20 February, 2008 by Michael Kanellos

Building the future by joining the dots

...the inaccessibly complex, too. The gunk is a colloidal suspension of semiconductor quantum dots that dries out in the right geometry to form a laser... Read more

19 April, 2006 by Leader

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...weirder than this — and I mean that most sincerely. Not only are quantum dots by far the coolest thing you can make with a handful... Read more

13 January, 2006

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...weirder than this — and I mean that most sincerely. Not only are quantum dots by far the coolest thing you can make with a handful... Read more

13 January, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

Nanocrystal sheds new light on future illumination

...graduate student Michael Bowers, who was trying to make blue-light emitting quantum dots. Quantum dots are nanometre-sized collections of atoms that contain and... Read more

24 October, 2005 by Tom Espiner

Nanotubes shed new light on fibre optics

...managed to produce light by injecting electrons into a polymer embedded with "quantum dots," microscopic crystals made of lead sulfide. Polymers -- chemicals made of large... Read more

2 May, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

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