Si quantum dot structures and their applications

L Shcherbyna, T Torchynska - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and …, 2013 - Elsevier
… Besides α-Si:H films other Si-based materials could be also used for solar cell applications.
In dependence on specific tasks, polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si:H) [46], [47], microcrystalline …

Graphene− quantum dot hybrid nanostructures with controlled optical and photoelectric properties for solar cell applications

PM Sokolov, MA Zvaigzne, VA Krivenkov… - Russian Chemical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
… In this review we demonstrated how these and many other issues are solved using
graphene – QD hybrid structures for solar cell applications, analyzed the main trends in the …

Silicon quantum dot superlattices: Modeling of energy bands, densities of states, and mobilities for silicon tandem solar cell applications

CW Jiang, MA Green - Journal of applied physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
application is in tandem solar cells based entirely on silicon, using confinement in the quantum
dot to control the cell band gap… band structure of a three-dimensional silicon quantum dot

Energy band structure tailoring of vertically aligned InAs/GaAsSb quantum dot structure for intermediate-band solar cell application by thermal annealing process

WS Liu, TF Chu, TH Huang - Optics Express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
… In this study, the columnar dot structure was combined with GaAsSb strain-reducing
layers (SRLs) as a vertically aligned InAs/GaAsSb columnar QD structure with ten dot layers. …

Application of functional quantum dot nanoparticles as fluorescence probes in cell labeling and tumor diagnostic imaging

MX Zhao, EZ Zeng - Nanoscale research letters, 2015 - Springer
… In recent years, the application of QDs has been further widened in cell biology research,
and the application in living cells is particularly noticeable [51,52]. Gerion et al. for the first time …

Quantum dot research: current state and future prospects

TJ Bukowski, JH Simmons - Critical Reviews in Solid State and …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
dot solar cells. Comments are made on the current progress and the future prospects of
quantum dot research and device applications… of nanoscale quantum dot structures using MBE. …

Quantum dot cytotoxicity and ways to reduce it

FM Winnik, D Maysinger - Accounts of chemical research, 2013 - ACS Publications
… used not only in clinical applications but also in various … vivo imaging of cellular mechanisms
using quantum dots (QDs) … dot particle size and on the monolayer chemical structure. Their …

Semiconductor quantum dots and quantum dot arrays and applications of multiple exciton generation to third-generation photovoltaic solar cells

AJ Nozik, MC Beard, JM Luther, M Law… - Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
… (15-23) Such QD-based devices used as photovoltaic cells are now … structures with potential
efficiency much higher than the thermodynamic limit for single junction bulk solar cells. The …

The cytotoxic effects of polymer-coated quantum dots and restrictions for live cell applications

SJ Soenen, J Demeester, SC De Smedt, K Braeckmans - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
… (middle column: green) that stains endosomal structures. A merged image of both the QDots
… of QDots and endosomal structures. Scale bars: 25 μm. (C) The number of QDot clusters per …

Quantum dot applications to neuroscience: new tools for probing neurons and glia

S Pathak, E Cao, MC Davidson, S Jin… - Journal of …, 2006 - Soc Neuroscience
Structure of a semiconductor fluorescent quantum dot nanocrystal. The heavy metal core is
… experience, most quantum dot protocols intended for non-neural mammalian cells in the peer…