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Innovation with QuantumFilm Digital Image Sensors Wins EE Times Recognition

InVisage, a Silicon Valley-based startup revolutionizing imaging, was named to the recently released EE Times "Silicon 60: Hot startups to watch." The list recognizes innovative, emerging companies EE Times editorial staff believes are poised for great success.

16 Oct 2012

Magnolia Solar to Incorporate Quantum Dot Structures into Advanced Photovoltaic Devices

Magnolia Solar, developer of revolutionary thin-film solar cell technologies employing nanostructured materials and designs, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Magnolia Solar, Inc., received a $750,000 Phase II award from the United States Air Force as part of the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program.

10 Oct 2012

Scientists Explore Feasibility of Ultrathin-Film Photovoltaic Devices Using Quantum Dots

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are developing nanotechnology that could lead to a new platform for solar cells, one that could drive the development of lighter, flexible and more versatile solar-powered technology than is currently available.

9 Oct 2012

Physicists Observe Behavior of Electrons in Quantum Dots

Researchers consider quantum dots to hold great potential for technological applications. The nanoscale semiconductor materials are easy to synthesize and their behavior is akin to that of single atoms. In order to capitalize on the unique properties of quantum dots, it is essential to understand the behavior of electrons contained inside quantum dots.

29 Sep 2012

Quantum Dot Cellular Automaton – A Breakthrough Concept to Develop Zero Current Electronics

A research group based at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) has been awarded €1.6 million grant by the Academy of Finland under its ‘Programmable Materials’ funding scheme.

13 Sep 2012

Researchers Strive to Build Quantum Mechanics Bridges by Splitting Single Atom

University of Bonn researchers have shown how one atom can be split into two halves, taken apart and then joined together again. The researchers strived to build quantum mechanics bridges by making the atom come into contact with adjacent atoms while it is being taken apart so that it functions like a bridge spanning between two pillars. The results are published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” journal.

7 Jun 2012

Quantum Dots Help Improve the Efficiency of Cheap Solar Cells

Researchers of the Opto-electronic Materials section of the TU Delft and Toyota Europe have demonstrated that several mobile electrons can be produced by the absorption of a single light particle in films of coupled quantum dots.

16 Oct 2011

Nanoco to Use Quantum Dots to Develop LEDs with Superior Properties

Nanoco Group plc (AIM: NANO), a world leader in the development and manufacture of cadmium-free quantum dots, announces that it has signed a joint development agreement with one of the world's largest lighting compan...

14 Aug 2011

Researchers Find Some Quantum Dots Biodegrade

Quantum dots made from cadmium and selenium degrade in soil, unleashing toxic cadmium and selenium ions into their surroundings, a University at Buffalo study has found. The research, accepted for publication in the j...

25 Jul 2011

Theoretical Physicists Aim to Create Magnetic Quantum Dots

At the smallest scales, magnetism may not work quite the way scientists expected, according to a recent paper in Physical Review Letters by Rafal Oszwaldowski and Igor Zutic of the University at Buffalo and Andre Petukhov of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

From Department of Physics, University at Buffalo 30 Jun 2011