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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,278 Views
12 Pages

15 April 2015

We present analytic treatment of the three different dynamic regimes found in quantum-dot laser turn-on and modulation dynamics. A dynamic coupling, and thus density-dependent scattering lifetimes between dots and reservoir, are identified to be cruc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,125 Views
13 Pages

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is a low-power, non-von-Neumann, general-purpose paradigm for classical computing using transistor-free logic. Here, classical bits are encoded on the charge configuration of individual computing primitives known a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,228 Views
14 Pages

Sequential Improvement from Cosolvents Ink Formulation to Vacuum Annealing for Ink-Jet Printed Quantum-Dot Light-Emitting Diodes

  • Young Joon Han,
  • Do Yeob Kim,
  • Kunsik An,
  • Kyung-Tae Kang,
  • Byeong-Kwon Ju and
  • Kwan Hyun Cho

24 October 2020

Optimization of ink-jet printing conditions of quantum-dot (QD) ink by cosolvent process and improvement of quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) characteristics assisted by vacuum annealing were analyzed in this research. A cosolvent process of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,219 Views
12 Pages

Mid-Infrared Quantum-Dot Quantum Cascade Laser: A Theoretical Feasibility Study

  • Stephan Michael,
  • Weng W. Chow and
  • Hans Christian Schneider

In the framework of a microscopic model for intersubband gain from electrically pumped quantum-dot structures we investigate electrically pumped quantum-dots as active material for a mid-infrared quantum cascade laser. Our previous calculations have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,893 Views
24 Pages

Hybrid Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Nanocomputing Circuits

  • Mohammed Alharbi,
  • Gerard Edwards and
  • Richard Stocker

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is an emerging transistor-less field-coupled nanocomputing (FCN) approach to ultra-scale ‘nanochip’ integration. In QCA, to represent digital circuitry, electrostatic repulsion between electrons and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,145 Views
24 Pages

Reversible Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata-Based Arithmetic Logic Unit

  • Mohammed Alharbi,
  • Gerard Edwards and
  • Richard Stocker

29 August 2023

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are a promising nanoscale computing technology that exploits the quantum mechanical tunneling of electrons between quantum dots in a cell and electrostatic interaction between dots in neighboring cells. QCA can ach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,100 Views
7 Pages

14 January 2019

An ethanol vapor sensor based on a microfiber with a quantum-dot (QD) gel coating is proposed and demonstrated. The QD gel was made from UV glue as the gel matrix and CdSe/ZnS QDs with a concentration of 1 mg/mL. The drawing and coating processes wer...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,397 Views
7 Pages

7 February 2022

Fabrication of high-performance, flexible quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) requires the reliable manufacture of a flexible transparent electrode to replace the conventional brittle indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrode, along with fle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,771 Views
10 Pages

Effects of UV Irradiation and Storage on the Performance of Inverted Red Quantum-Dot Light-Emitting Diodes

  • Yu Luo,
  • Junjie Wang,
  • Pu Wang,
  • Chaohuang Mai,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Boon Kar Yap and
  • Junbiao Peng

18 June 2021

We report the effects of ultraviolet (UV) irradiation and storage on the performance of ZnO-based inverted quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs). The effects of UV irradiation on the electrical properties of ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) were investiga...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,035 Views
19 Pages

28 October 2025

Quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) have emerged as promising candidates for next-generation display technologies owing to their high color purity and external quantum efficiency. Despite rapid advancements in device performance, operational st...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,260 Views
26 Pages

22 June 2015

Wavelength−tunable semiconductor quantum−dot lasers have achieved impressive performance in terms of high−power, broad tunability, low threshold current, as well as broadly tunable generation of ultrashort pulses. InAs/GaAs quantum−dot−based lasers i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,656 Views
15 Pages

We calculate the excess energy transferred into two-dot and three-dot quantum dot cellular automata systems during switching events. This is the energy that must eventually be dissipated as heat. The adiabaticity of a switching event is quantified us...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,730 Views
17 Pages

16 January 2024

Energy efficiency considerations in terms of reduced power dissipation are a significant issue in the design of digital circuits for very large-scale integration (VLSI) systems. Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is an emerging ultralow power dissip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,092 Views
14 Pages

27 September 2025

Molecular quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are attracting much attention as an alternative that can improve the problems of digital circuit design technology represented by existing CMOS technology. In particular, they are well suited to the upcom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,569 Views
25 Pages

Impact of Molecular Electrostatics on Field-Coupled Nanocomputing and Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Circuits

  • Yuri Ardesi,
  • Giuliana Beretta,
  • Marco Vacca,
  • Gianluca Piccinini and
  • Mariagrazia Graziano

The molecular Field-Coupled Nanocomputing (FCN) is a promising implementation of the Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) paradigm for future low-power digital electronics. However, most of the literature assumes all the QCA devices as possible molecu...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
954 Views
8 Pages

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) offer a high-performance, low-power alternative to traditional VLSI technology for nanocomputing. However, the existing metal-dot QCA-based parity generators and checker circuits suffer from increased energy dissip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,330 Views
15 Pages

A multiplier is one of the main units for digital signal processing and communication systems. In this paper, a high speed and low complexity multiplier is designed on the basis of quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), which is considered promising na...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,471 Views
14 Pages

Reversible computation is very important to minimize energy dissipation and prevent information loss not only in quantum computing but also in digital computing. Therefore, interest in designing efficient universal logic gates has recently increased....

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,094 Views
14 Pages

18 September 2021

One of the emerging technologies at the nanoscale level is the Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) technology, which is a potential alternative to conventional CMOS technology due to its high speed, low power consumption, low latency, and possible im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,160 Views
11 Pages

9 November 2020

We investigated the effect of intense-pulsed light (IPL) post-treatment on the time-dependent characteristics of ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) used as an electron transport layer (ETL) of quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs). The time-dependent charac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,836 Views
15 Pages

Substantial Improvement of Color-Rendering Properties of Conventional White LEDs Using Remote-Type Red Quantum-Dot Caps

  • Gi Jung Lee,
  • Seung Chan Hong,
  • Jung-Gyun Lee,
  • Jae-Hyeon Ko,
  • Taehee Park,
  • Young Wook Ko and
  • Sergey Lushnikov

27 March 2022

A new type of remote red quantum-dot (QD) component was designed and fabricated to improve the color-rendering properties of conventional white LED (light-emitting diode) lightings. Based on an optical simulation, the rectangular cavity-type QD cap w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,475 Views
11 Pages

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) nanotechnology is a practical suggestion for replacing present silicon-based technologies. It provides many benefits, such as low power usage, high velocity, and an extreme density of logic functions on a chip. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,377 Views
13 Pages

4 February 2022

Many studies have addressed the physical limitations of complementary metal-oxide semi-conductor (CMOS) technology and the need for next-generation technologies, and quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are emerging as a replacement for nanotechnology...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,470 Views
18 Pages

Progress in the Development of Active-Matrix Quantum-Dot Light-Emitting Diodes Driven by Non-Si Thin-Film Transistors

  • Geun Woo Baek,
  • Yeon Jun Kim,
  • Minhyung Lee,
  • Yeunwoo Kwon,
  • Beomsoo Chun,
  • Ganghyun Park,
  • Hansol Seo,
  • Heesun Yang and
  • Jeonghun Kwak

29 November 2022

This paper aims to discuss the key accomplishments and further prospects of active-matrix (AM) quantum-dot (QD) light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) display. We present an overview and state-of-the-art of QLEDs as a frontplane and non-Si-based thin-film tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,235 Views
15 Pages

20 December 2021

The miniaturization of electronic devices and the inefficiency of CMOS technology due to the development of integrated circuits and its lack of responsiveness at the nanoscale have led to the acquisition of nanoscale technologies. Among these technol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
824 Views
23 Pages

15 October 2025

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) technology has emerged as a promising approach for constructing nanoscale digital circuits, offering notable advantages such as minimal power consumption, rapid processing speeds, and highly compact layouts. Tradit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
960 Views
10 Pages

30 July 2025

Intermediate-band photovoltaics promise single-junction efficiencies that exceed the Shockley and Queisser limit, yet viable material platforms and device geometries remain under debate. Here, we perform comprehensive two-dimensional device-scale sim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,324 Views
11 Pages

Impact of Local Composition on the Emission Spectra of InGaN Quantum-Dot LEDs

  • Daniele Barettin,
  • Alexei V. Sakharov,
  • Andrey F. Tsatsulnikov,
  • Andrey E. Nikolaev,
  • Alessandro Pecchia,
  • Matthias Auf der Maur,
  • Sergey Yu. Karpov and
  • Nikolay Cherkashin

14 April 2023

A possible solution for the realization of high-efficiency visible light-emitting diodes (LEDs) exploits InGaN-quantum-dot-based active regions. However, the role of local composition fluctuations inside the quantum dots and their effect of the devic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,872 Views
15 Pages

Germanium Quantum-Dot Array with Self-Aligned Electrodes for Quantum Electronic Devices

  • I-Hsiang Wang,
  • Po-Yu Hong,
  • Kang-Ping Peng,
  • Horng-Chih Lin,
  • Thomas George and
  • Pei-Wen Li

16 October 2021

Semiconductor-based quantum registers require scalable quantum-dots (QDs) to be accurately located in close proximity to and independently addressable by external electrodes. Si-based QD qubits have been realized in various lithographically-defined S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,709 Views
11 Pages

Ultra-Smooth Polishing of Single-Crystal Silicon Carbide by Pulsed-Ion-Beam Sputtering of Quantum-Dot Sacrificial Layers

  • Dongyang Qiao,
  • Feng Shi,
  • Ye Tian,
  • Wanli Zhang,
  • Lingbo Xie,
  • Shuangpeng Guo,
  • Ci Song and
  • Guipeng Tie

27 December 2023

Single-crystal silicon carbide has excellent electrical, mechanical, and chemical properties. However, due to its high hardness material properties, achieving high-precision manufacturing of single-crystal silicon carbide with an ultra-smooth surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,462 Views
13 Pages

Highly Efficient ITO-Free Quantum-Dot Light Emitting Diodes via Solution-Processed PEDOT:PSS Semitransparent Electrode

  • Jin Hyun Ma,
  • Min Gye Kim,
  • Jun Hyung Jeong,
  • Min Ho Park,
  • Hyoun Ji Ha,
  • Seong Jae Kang and
  • Seong Jun Kang

29 May 2023

We present a study on the potential use of sulfuric acid-treated poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) as a viable alternative to indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes in quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs). ITO, desp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,873 Views
17 Pages

21 March 2022

The demand for extra-thin, large-area, and high-luminance flat-panel displays continues to grow, especially for portable displays such as gaming laptops and automotive displays. In this paper, we propose a design that includes a light guide layer wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,557 Views
6 Pages

19 January 2022

We report on a green, dual emissive quantum-dot light-emitting diode (QLED) using alumina (Al)-doped ZnO (AZO) to adjust the band offset between the cathode and QD-emitting layers. The dual emissive QLED structure was designed by enhancing the effici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,081 Views
6 Pages

12 September 2018

Quantum-dot (QD) photonic-crystal (PC) surface-emitting laser (SEL) devices with bottom distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) were fabricated based on vertical-cavity SEL structure with top DBR completely removed. Two-dimensional (2D) PCs were deeply etc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,338 Views
13 Pages

15 September 2023

Red color conversion materials have often been used in conventional white LEDs (light-emitting diodes) to enhance the insufficient deep-red component and thus improve the color-rendering property. Quantum dots (QDs) are one of the candidates for this...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,883 Views
10 Pages

15 October 2023

Vertical light-emitting transistors (VLETs) consisting of vertically stacked unipolar transistors and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been proposed as a prospective building block for display technologies. In addition to OLEDs, quantum-dot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,156 Views
9 Pages

Monolayer Quantum-Dot Based Light-Sensor by a Photo-Electrochemical Mechanism

  • Sitansu Sekhar Nanda,
  • Minjik Kim,
  • Sung Jong Yoo,
  • Georgia C. Papaefthymiou and
  • Dong Kee Yi

28 August 2020

Monolayer nanocrystal-based light sensors with cadmium-selenium thin film electrodes have been investigated using electrochemical cyclic voltammetry tests. An indium tin oxide electrode system, with a monolayer of homogeneously deposited cadmium-sele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,502 Views
15 Pages

18 August 2022

A remote-type white light-emitting diode (LED) consisting of a red quantum-dot (QD) film and a yellow phosphor plate was studied by both experiment and optical simulation. The sequence of the two color-conversion films had a substantial effect on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
11,569 Views
22 Pages

Enzyme-Polymers Conjugated to Quantum-Dots for Sensing Applications

  • Alexandra Mansur,
  • Herman Mansur and
  • Juan González

21 October 2011

In the present research, the concept of developing a novel system based on polymer-enzyme macromolecules was tested by coupling carboxylic acid functionalized poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA-COOH) to glucose oxidase (GOx) followed by the bioconjugation with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,998 Views
11 Pages

Simulation and Design of HgSe Colloidal Quantum-Dot Microspectrometers

  • Chong Wen,
  • Xue Zhao,
  • Ge Mu,
  • Menglu Chen and
  • Xin Tang

22 June 2022

In recent years, colloidal quantum dots (CQD) have been intensively studied in various fields due to their excellent optical properties, such as size-tunable absorption features and wide spectral tunability. Therefore, CQDs are promising infrared mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,856 Views
8 Pages

Stability Analysis of Quantum-Dot Spin-VCSELs

  • Nianqiang Li,
  • Dimitris Alexandropoulos,
  • Hadi Susanto,
  • Ian Henning and
  • Michael Adams

Spin-polarized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (spin-VCSELs) and vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (spin-VECSELs) are of interest since their output polarization can be manipulated by spin-selective pumping, either optical or e...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,326 Views
5 Pages

11 November 2020

In this study, the four-wave mixing (FWM) spectrum of a strongly pumped hybrid structure is theoretically examined. The hybrid structure consists of an asymmetric double semiconductor quantum dot (SQD) molecule and a spherical metal nanoparticle (MNP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,441 Views
8 Pages

Improvement of the Stability of Quantum-Dot Light Emitting Diodes Using Inorganic HfOx Hole Transport Layer

  • Jung Min Yun,
  • Min Ho Park,
  • Yu Bin Kim,
  • Min Jung Choi,
  • Seunghwan Kim,
  • Yeonjin Yi,
  • Soohyung Park and
  • Seong Jun Kang

27 September 2024

One of the major challenges in QLED research is improving the stability of the devices. In this study, we fabricated all inorganic quantum-dot light emitting diodes (QLEDs) using hafnium oxide (HfOx) as the hole transport layer (HTL), a material comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,945 Views
9 Pages

THz Superradiance from a GaAs: ErAs Quantum Dot Array at Room Temperature

  • Weidong Zhang,
  • Elliott R. Brown,
  • Andrea Mingardi,
  • Richard P. Mirin,
  • Navid Jahed and
  • Daryoosh Saeedkia

26 July 2019

We report that an ErAs quantum-dot array in a GaAs matrix under 1550 nm pulsed excitation produces cooperative spontaneous emission—Dicke superradiance—in the terahertz frequency region at room temperature. Two key points pertain to the experimental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,742 Views
10 Pages

Flexible Quantum-Dot Color-Conversion Layer Based on Microfluidics for Full-Color Micro-LEDs

  • Panyuan Li,
  • Jin Tao,
  • Yongzhou Zhao,
  • Yifang Sun,
  • Kaili Fan,
  • Licai Zhu,
  • Wenchao Sun,
  • Jinguang Lv,
  • Yuxin Qin and
  • Jingqiu Liang
  • + 4 authors

16 March 2022

In this article, red and green perovskite quantum dots are incorporated into the pixels of a flexible color-conversion layer assembly using microfluidics. The flexible color-conversion layer is then integrated with a blue micro-LED to realize a full-...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,301 Views
5 Pages

Resonance Fluorescence of a Quantum Dot near a Metallic Nanoparticle: Quantum Interference Effects

  • Spyridon G. Kosionis,
  • Vassilios Yannopapas,
  • Ioannis Thanopulos and
  • Emmanuel Paspalakis

In recent years, significant attention was given to the quantum or nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots coupled to plasmonic nanostructures. A phenomenon that was studied is the modification of the resonance fluorescence spectru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,343 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2023

Thermoelectric rectification and amplification were investigated in an interacting quantum-dot circuit-quantum-electrodynamics system. By applying the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green’s function approach, we studied the elastic (energy-conserving)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
386 Views
24 Pages

Quantum Dot Thermal Machines—A Guide to Engineering

  • Eugenia Pyurbeeva and
  • Ronnie Kosloff

19 December 2025

Continuous particle exchange thermal machines require no time-dependent driving, can be realised in solid-state electronic devices, and can be miniaturised to nanometre scale. Quantum dots, providing a narrow energy filter and allowing to manipulate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,523 Views
13 Pages

Improvement of Dynamic Performance and Detectivity in Near-Infrared Colloidal Quantum Dot Photodetectors by Incorporating Conjugated Polymers

  • Myeong In Kim,
  • Jinhyeon Kang,
  • Jaehee Park,
  • WonJo Jeong,
  • Junho Kim,
  • Sanggyu Yim and
  • In Hwan Jung

7 November 2022

Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) have a unique advantage in realizing near-infrared (NIR) photodetection since their optical properties are readily tuned by the particle size, but CQD-based photodetectors (QPDs) presently show a high dark current densit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,647 Views
9 Pages

31 May 2023

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of substrate characteristics on the performance of quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) with the aim of developing high-performance flexible QLEDs. Specifically, we compared QLEDs made with...

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