Getting quantum dots to stop blinking
New approach solves a persistent problem of intermittency that has hindered use of the tiny light emitters for biological imaging or quantum photonics.
New approach solves a persistent problem of intermittency that has hindered use of the tiny light emitters for biological imaging or quantum photonics.
SMART researchers demonstrate a practical way to make indium gallium nitride LEDs with considerably higher indium concentration.
In a study that could benefit quantum computing, researchers show a superlattice embedded with nanodots may be immune from dissipating energy to the environment.
Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms.
Specialized invisible dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable “on-patient” storage of vaccination history to save lives in regions where paper or digital records aren’t available.
System that generates coherent single particles of light could help pave the way for quantum information processors or communications.
It’s not quite the Ant-Man suit, but the system produces 3-D structures one thousandth the size of the originals.
Chemical engineering professor plumbs “vast regions of chemical space.”
“Quantum dots” that emit infrared light enable highly detailed images of internal body structures.
PhD candidate Maher Damak and Professor Moungi Bawendi recognized for advances in engineering and chemistry.
A new approach gives a real-time look at how the complex structures form.
New instrument is small enough to function within a smartphone, enabling portable light analysis.
Tuning energy levels through surface chemistry shows promise for higher efficiency quantum dot solar cells, MIT graduate student Patrick R. Brown's work shows.
MIT's associate dean for innovation is inventing at the nanoscale.
MIT chemistry graduate student Jolene Mork examines rates of excitonic-energy transfer.