Third-generation solar cells are designed to achieve high power-conversion efficiency while
being low-cost to produce. These solar cells have the ability to surpass the Shockley …

Microfluidic approaches to nanomaterial synthesis provide an effective means of making
high quality products, with exquisite control over electronic, optical, and structural properties …

It is a generally accepted perspective that type-II nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs) have low
quantum yield due to the separation of the electron and hole wavefunctions. Recently, high …

With available different solar cell technology, adequate conversion efficiency is a major
concern with reference to important parameters like energy payback time, inexpensive to …

Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) has been a valuable analytical technique since the 1970s
that has only been made more useful through advances in other scientific fields such as …

Stokes shift is an important feature of fluorescence, which reveals the energy loss between
the excitation and the emission. For most fluorescent materials (eg, organic dyes and …

Quantum dots (QDs) are fluorescent nanocrystals with superb photo-physical properties.
Applications of QDs have been exponentially increased during the past decade. They can …

Tunable copper doped Zn1− xCdxS alloy quantum dots (QDs) were successfully
synthesized by the wet chemical method. A one-step method is developed to synthesize …

Abstract Tb-doped ZnS (ZnS: Tb 3+) QDs with various Tb concentration have been
successfully fabricated by the wet chemical method. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) and …

The high efficiency of perovskite solar cells strongly depends on the quality of perovskite
films and carrier extraction layers. Here, we present the results of an investigation of the …