The toxic heavy metals in today's infrared detectors are increasingly banned under environmental regulations, forcing ...

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This release is available in French. McGill University researchers have successfully amplified light with so-called "colloidal quantum dots," a technology that had been written off by many as a ...

Single electrons in quantum dots can be disturbed by the apparatus used to measure them. The disturbance can be mediated by incoherent phonons — literally, noise. Engineering acoustic interference ...

(Nanowerk News) New types of solotronic structures, including the world's first quantum dots containing single cobalt ions, have been created and studied at the Faculty of Physics at the University of ...

Quantum dots and quantum wells represent pivotal semiconductor nanostructures whose quantum confinement effects yield discrete energy spectra and highly tunable optical and electronic properties.

Hybrid structures containing semiconductor quantum dots and metal nanoparticles could lead to better light-emitting diodes and new nonlinear photonic devices. That is according to researchers in China ...