{"id":127131,"date":"2021-09-02T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/paving-the-path-to-electrically-pumped-lasers-from-colloidal-quantum-dot-solutions"},"modified":"2021-09-02T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T22:22:58","slug":"paving-the-path-to-electrically-pumped-lasers-from-colloidal-quantum-dot-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/paving-the-path-to-electrically-pumped-lasers-from-colloidal-quantum-dot-solutions","title":{"rendered":"Paving the path to electrically-pumped lasers from colloidal-quantum-dot solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paving-the-path-to-electrically-pumped-lasers-from-colloidal-quantum-dot-solutions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new review article in <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>, scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory assess the status of research into colloidal quantum dot lasers with a focus on prospective electrically pumped devices, or laser diodes. The review analyzes the challenges for realizing lasing with electrical excitation, discusses approaches to overcome them, and surveys recent advances toward this objective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColloidal quantum dot lasers have tremendous potential in a range of applications, including integrated optical circuits, wearable technologies, lab-on-a-chip devices, and advanced medical imaging and diagnostics,\u201d said Victor Klimov, a senior researcher in the Chemistry division at Los Alamos and lead author of the cover article in <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>. \u201cThese solution-processed quantum dot <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+diodes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser diodes<\/a> present unique challenges, which we\u2019re making good progress in overcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heeyoung Jung and Namyoung Ahn, also of Los Alamos\u2019 Chemistry division, are coauthors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new review article in Nature Photonics, scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory assess the status of research into colloidal quantum dot lasers with a focus on prospective electrically pumped devices, or laser diodes. The review analyzes the challenges for realizing lasing with electrical excitation, discusses approaches to overcome them, and surveys recent advances [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523,1617,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127131","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}