Because of the strong spatial confinement of electronic wave functions and reduced
dielectric screening, the effects of carrier-carrier Coulomb interactions are greatly enhanced …

Sulfide-based luminescent materials have attracted a lot of attention for a wide range of
photo-, cathodo-and electroluminescent applications. Upon doping with Ce3+ and Eu2+, the …

Colloidal nanocrystals are quantum‐size‐effect tunable; offer an abundance of available
surface area for electronic and chemical interactions; and are processible from organic or …

Due to the quantum confinement effect, colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) exhibit
various advantageous properties as optical gain media including emission wavelength …

The gain-assisted plasmonic analog of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a
metallic metamaterial is investigated for the purpose to enhance the sensing performance of …

Colloidal nanocrystals–produced in a growing variety of shapes, sizes and compositions–
are rapidly developing into a new generation of photonic materials, spanning light emitting …

Sources of coherent, monochromatic short-wavelength infrared (1-2 μm) light are essential
in telecommunications, biomedical diagnosis, and optical sensing. Today's semiconductor …

Materials with optical gain in the infrared are of paramount importance for optical
communications, medical diagnostics, and silicon photonics. The current technology is …

Excitonic state-resolved optical pumping experiments were performed on strongly confined
semiconductor quantum dots. We demonstrate for the first time that optical gain is dependent …

Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are a promising class of materials for next-generation
optoelectronic devices, such as displays, LEDs, lasers, photodetectors, and solar cells …