{"id":206728,"date":"2025-02-19T05:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/light-powered-breakthrough-enables-precision-tuning-of-quantum-dots"},"modified":"2025-02-19T05:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:27:14","slug":"light-powered-breakthrough-enables-precision-tuning-of-quantum-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/light-powered-breakthrough-enables-precision-tuning-of-quantum-dots","title":{"rendered":"Light-powered breakthrough enables precision tuning of quantum dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-powered-breakthrough-enables-precision-tuning-of-quantum-dots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new technique that uses light to tune the optical properties of quantum dots\u2014making the process faster, more energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable\u2014without compromising material quality.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202419668\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe discovery of quantum dots earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2023 because they are used in so many applications,\u201d says Milad Abolhasani, corresponding author of a paper on the work and ALCOA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State. \u201cWe use them in LEDs, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar cells<\/a>, displays, quantum technologies and so on. To tune their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical properties<\/a>, you need to tune the bandgap of quantum dots\u2014the minimum energy required to excite an electron from a bound state to a free-moving state\u2014since this directly determines the color of light they emit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new technique that uses light to tune the optical properties of quantum dots\u2014making the process faster, more energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable\u2014without compromising material quality. The findings are published in the journal Advanced Materials. \u201cThe discovery of quantum dots earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2023 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,1617,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206728","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=206728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}