Infrared technologies provide tremendous value to our modern-day society. The need for
easy-to-fabricate, solution-processable, tunable infrared active optoelectronic materials has …

Light detection is the underlying principle of many optoelectronic systems. For decades,
semiconductors including silicon carbide, silicon, indium gallium arsenide and germanium …

Surface traps are ubiquitous to nanoscopic semiconductor materials. Understanding their
atomistic origin and manipulating them chemically have capital importance to design defect …

The subject of this review is the colloidal quantum dot (QD) and specifically the interaction of
the QD with proximate molecules. It covers various functions of these molecules, including (i) …

Band edge positions of semiconductors determine their functionality in many optoelectronic
applications such as photovoltaics, photoelectrochemical cells and light emitting diodes …

One of the greatest challenges in the field of semiconductor nanomaterials is to make trap-
free nanocrystalline structures to attain a remarkable improvement of their optoelectronic …

The recent development of phase transfer ligand exchange methods for PbS quantum dots
(QD) has enhanced the performance of quantum dots solar cells and greatly simplified the …

Control over carrier type and doping levels in semiconductor materials is key for
optoelectronic applications. In colloidal quantum dots (CQDs), these properties can be tuned …

Semiconductor nanocrystals exhibit attractive photophysical properties for use in a variety of
applications. Advancing the efficiency of nanocrystal-based devices requires a deep …

Nanocrystal–ligand interactions and ligand exchange processes are usually described by a
uniform distribution of equal binding sites. Here, we analyze this assumption by a …