Monitoring harmful and toxic chemicals, gases, microorganisms, and radiation has been a
challenge to the scientific community for the betterment of human health and environment …

Nanocrystals (NCs) are one of the few nanotechnologies to have attained mass market
applications with their use as light sources for displays. This success relies on Cd-and In …

Infrared multispectral imaging is attracting great interest with the increasing demand for
sensitive, low-cost and scalable devices that can distinguish coincident spectral information …

Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) with a band gap tunable in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR)
region provide a cheap alternative to epitaxial commercial photodetectors such as HgCdTe …

Commercial infrared (IR) photodetectors based on epitaxial growth inorganic
semiconductors, eg InGaAs and HgCdTe, suffer from high fabrication cost, poor compatibility …

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) is an intriguing phenomenon induced by the
collective oscillations of free carriers with incident light, and has attracted considerable …

The detection of light, one of the most important technologies, has widespread applications
in industry and our daily life, eg, environmental monitoring, communications, surveillance …

Due to their wide tunable bandgaps, high absorption coefficients, easy solution
processabilities, and high stabilities in air, lead sulfide (PbS) quantum dots (QDs) are …

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) silicon sensors play a central role in
optoelectronics with widespread applications from small cell phone cameras to large-format …

Thermal imaging in the midwave infrared plays an important role for numerous applications.
The key functionality is imaging devices in the atmospheric window between 3 and 5 μm …