{"id":211826,"date":"2025-04-19T02:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ink-engineering-approach-boosts-efficiency-and-cuts-cost-of-quantum-dot-based-photovoltaics"},"modified":"2025-04-19T02:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:28:55","slug":"ink-engineering-approach-boosts-efficiency-and-cuts-cost-of-quantum-dot-based-photovoltaics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ink-engineering-approach-boosts-efficiency-and-cuts-cost-of-quantum-dot-based-photovoltaics","title":{"rendered":"Ink engineering approach boosts efficiency and cuts cost of quantum dot-based photovoltaics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ink-engineering-approach-boosts-efficiency-and-cuts-cost-of-quantum-dot-based-photovoltaics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are tiny semiconductor particles that are just a few nanometers in size, which are synthesized in a liquid solution (i.e., colloid). These single-crystal particles, created by breaking down bulk materials via chemical and physical processes, have proved to be promising for the development of photovoltaic (PV) technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum dot-based PVs could have various advantages, including a tunable bandgap, greater flexibility and solution processing. However, quantum dot-based <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar cells<\/a> developed so far have been found to have significant limitations, including lower efficiencies than conventional silicon-based cells and high manufacturing costs, due to the expensive processes required to synthesize conductive CQD films.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Soochow University in China, the University of Electro-Communications in Japan and other institutes worldwide recently introduced a new method that could potentially help to improve the efficiencies of quantum-dot based photovoltaics, while also lowering their manufacturing costs. Their proposed approach, outlined in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41560-025-01746-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Energy<\/i>, entails the engineering of lead sulfide (PbS) CQD inks used to print films for solar cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are tiny semiconductor particles that are just a few nanometers in size, which are synthesized in a liquid solution (i.e., colloid). These single-crystal particles, created by breaking down bulk materials via chemical and physical processes, have proved to be promising for the development of photovoltaic (PV) technologies. Quantum dot-based PVs could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,48,1617,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211826","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=211826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}