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What future for quantum dot-based light emitters?

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Synthesis of semiconductor colloidal quantum dots by low-cost, solution-based methods has produced an abundance of basic science. Can these materials be transformed to high-performance light emitters to disrupt established photonics technologies, particularly semiconductor lasers?

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Figure 1: Optical gain spectroscopy at lowest exciton resonance in red II–VI quantum dot films.
Figure 2: Semiconductor nanoplatelets.
Figure 3: Red, green and blue surface-emitting CdSe–CdZnSe distributed feedback (DFB) colloidal quantum dot lasers.
Figure 4: Proposed energy-level scheme for a composite electrical injector interface in a perovskite LED, combining inorganic and organic thin films for electron and hole transport, respectively.

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Nurmikko, A. What future for quantum dot-based light emitters?. Nature Nanotech 10, 1001–1004 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.288

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