Researchers have succeeded in measuring how energy dissipates in quantum dots by quantifying the entropy they produce. The ...

Among their many uses, quantum dots have shown promise as photovoltaic materials in solar cells. Now, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have developed a new type of quantum dot ...

For the first time, researchers in China have demonstrated how quantum dots can be engineered to consistently generate pairs ...

Perovskite solar cells have come a long way in a short time, but there’s still room for improvement. Engineers have now added a layer of quantum dots to the recipe, resulting in a more stable solar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine using just a flicker of sunlight to break stubborn chemical bonds that once required intense energy or toxic chemicals to ...

In order to build the computers and devices of tomorrow, we have to understand how they use energy today. That's harder than it sounds. Memory storage, information processing, and energy use in these ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in quantum dot technology, significantly raising this technology's ability to convert light into energy or chemical products. “Our work demonstrates how purely ...

Researchers from Basel, Bochum and Copenhagen have gained new insights into the energy states of quantum dots. They are semiconductor nanostructures and promising building blocks for quantum ...

(Nanowerk News) Thanks to their unusual optical properties, carbon particles with diameters on the order of a few nanometers – so-called carbon dots – show great promise for a wide range of ...