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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Quantum dots, discovered in the 1990s, have a wide range of applications and are perhaps best known for producing vivid colors in some high-end televisions. But for some potential ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Semiconductor quantum dot-dye conjugates such as shown in Figure 1(A) are increasingly used in alternative energy applications to enhance the efficiency of photovoltaic devices. Furthermore, they can ...