A novel technology to display information on transparent screens offers new opportunities in next-generation electronics, such as augmented reality devices, smart surgical glasses, and smart windows.
High-Performance Carbon Quantum Dots for Warm WLEDs
Highly efficient, red-emissive carbon quantum dots (R-CQDs) with a quantum yield of 53% are prepared and a CQD-phosphors-based warm white-light-emitting diode (WLED) is realized for the first time.
Improving Avalanche Photodiodes – Quantum Dots do the Trick
An avalanche photodiode design with a quantum dot multiplication structure attains a high maximum gain factor and a superior gain noise performance.
Making 2D Barcodes Work Harder for Anticounterfeit Technology
Researchers from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, believe that 2D barcodes can be made to work harder by fully exploiting the 3D information they actually contain.
Carbon Quantum Dots with Distinct Optical Properties
The first synthesis and demonstration of multicolor bandgap fluorescent CQDs (MCBF-CQDs) is reported.
Quantum dots & nanotubes make alternative transistors
New electronics harness quantum tunnelling to create transistors without semiconductors.
Single-photon emitter will improve quantum cryptography
Researchers have demonstrated a simpler, more efficient single-photon emitter that can be made using traditional semiconductor processing techniques.
Ultrafast logic gate from quantum dots
Researchers working to harness the quantum nature of light and semiconductors develop new logic system.
Carbon nanotubes could be the "bits" of quantum computers
Munich-based team show how nanotubes can store information in the form of vibrations.
Quantum vibration sensor from carbon nanotubes
Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and French colleagues from Grenoble and Strasbourg build novel quantum mechanical system.