This kind of solar cell technology had so far reached efficiencies of up to 9%. The new result was made possible by a ...

Researchers have discovered a way to recycle the tiny particles used to create supraparticle lasers, a technology that precisely controls light at a very small scale. The breakthrough could help ...

Researchers have successfully created electrically defined quantum dots in zinc oxide (ZnO) heterostructures, marking a ...

In a study published in the journal Optical Materials Express titled “Recycling self-assembled colloidal quantum dot ...

The quantum dot solution was spin-coated onto a substrate under ambient conditions with a relative humidity lower than 10% at room temperature. The solar cell showed a power conversion efficiency ...

are used in the most efficient solar cells, brightest LEDs, most powerful semiconductor lasers, and fastest electronic ...

Quantum-dot-based solar cells promise to deliver efficiencies approaching those of crystalline solar cells but with the manufacturing simplicity of organics. Crystalline materials such as silicon ...

More information: Hoon Jeong Lee et al, Predicting PbS Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cell Parameters Using Neural Networks ...

Nanotechnology allows for the integration of nanomaterials like quantum dots and plasmonic nanoparticles, which improve light absorption and increase the overall efficiency of these thin-film solar ...

(Image: NASA) Quantum dots have found applications in composites, solar cells (Grätzel cells) and fluorescent biological labels (for example to trace a biological molecule) which use both the small ...