{"id":207212,"date":"2025-02-25T05:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-reveal-key-to-affordable-room-temperature-quantum-light"},"modified":"2025-02-25T05:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:17:26","slug":"scientists-reveal-key-to-affordable-room-temperature-quantum-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-reveal-key-to-affordable-room-temperature-quantum-light","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal key to affordable, room-temperature quantum light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reveal-key-to-affordable-room-temperature-quantum-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum light sources are fickle. They can flicker like stars in the night sky and can fade out like a dying flashlight. However, newly published research from the University of Oklahoma proves that adding a covering to one of these light sources, called a colloidal quantum dot, can cause them to shine without faltering, opening the door to new, affordable quantum possibilities. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-55619-7\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> are available in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum dots, or QDs, are so small that if you scaled up a single quantum dot to the size of a baseball, a baseball would be the size of the moon. QDs are used in a variety of products, from computer monitors and LEDs to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar cells<\/a> and biomedical engineering devices. They are also used in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum computing<\/a> and communication.<\/p>\n<p>A research study led by OU Assistant Professor Yitong Dong demonstrates that adding a crystalized molecular layer to QDs made of perovskite neutralizes surface defects and stabilizes the surface lattices. Doing so prevents them from darkening or blinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum light sources are fickle. They can flicker like stars in the night sky and can fade out like a dying flashlight. However, newly published research from the University of Oklahoma proves that adding a covering to one of these light sources, called a colloidal quantum dot, can cause them to shine without faltering, opening [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,38,1617,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207212","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=207212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}