(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Research by Los Alamos scientists published today in the journal Nature documents significant progress in understanding the phenomenon of quantum-dot blinking ("Two types of ...