{"id":120901,"date":"2021-03-26T03:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/new-class-of-versatile-high-performance-quantum-dots-primed-for-medical-imaging-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2021-03-26T03:23:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:23:46","slug":"new-class-of-versatile-high-performance-quantum-dots-primed-for-medical-imaging-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/new-class-of-versatile-high-performance-quantum-dots-primed-for-medical-imaging-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"New class of versatile, high-performance quantum dots primed for medical imaging, quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-class-of-versatile-high-performance-quantum-dots-primed-for-medical-imaging-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new class of quantum dots deliver a stable stream of single, spectrally tunable infrared photons under ambient conditions and at room temperature, unlike other single photon emitters. This breakthrough opens a range of practical applications, including quantum communication, quantum metrology, medical imaging and diagnostics, and clandestine labeling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe demonstration of high single-photon purity in the infrared has immediate utility in areas such as quantum key distribution for secure communication,\u201d said Victor Klimov, lead author of a paper published today in <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i> by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Alamos team has developed an elegant approach to synthesizing the colloidal-nanoparticle structures derived from their prior work on visible light emitters based on a core of cadmium selenide encased in a cadmium sulfide shell. By inserting a mercury sulfide interlayer at the core\/shell interface, the team turned the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+dots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum dots<\/a> into highly efficient emitters of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infrared+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrared light<\/a> that can be tuned to a specific wavelength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new class of quantum dots deliver a stable stream of single, spectrally tunable infrared photons under ambient conditions and at room temperature, unlike other single photon emitters. This breakthrough opens a range of practical applications, including quantum communication, quantum metrology, medical imaging and diagnostics, and clandestine labeling. \u201cThe demonstration of high single-photon purity in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}