Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots

This is the first book to specifically focus on semiconductor nanocrystals, and address their synthesis and assembly, optical properties and spectroscopy, and potential areas of nanocrystal-based devices. The enormous potential of nanoscience to impact on industrial output is now clear. Over the next two decades, much of the science will transfer into new products and processes. One emerging area where this challenge will be very successfully met is the field of semiconductor nanocrystals. Also known as colloidal quantum dots, their unique properties have attracted much attention in the last twenty years. These highly efficient fluorophores have a strong band-gap luminescence tuneable by size as a result of the quantum confinement effect. Control over a nanocrystals size at the synthetic stage is a straightforward way to obtain II-VI, III-V and IV-VI binary materials with designed optical properties. Applications of nanocrystals in photonics, optoelectronics and biotechnology are currently envisaged.

Comprehensive review specifically addressing the fast growing field of semiconductor nanocrystals Written by experts in the field Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Growth mechanism, shape and composition control of semiconductor nanocrystals.- Synthesis of semiconductor nanocrystals in organic solvents.- Aqueous synthesis of semiconductor nanocrystals.- Multishell semiconductor nanocrystals.- Self-assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals into ordered superstructures.- Semiconductor nanocrystal-polymer composites: using polymers for nanocrystal processing.- Layer-by-layer (LBL) assembly with semiconductor nanoparticles and nanowires.- Exciton-phonon interaction in semiconductor nanocrystals.- Anti-Stokes photoluminescence in semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots.- Exciton dynamics and energy transfer processes in semiconductor nanocrystals.- Fluorescence spectroscopy of single CdSe nanocrystals.- Applications of quantum dots in biomedicine.