{"id":22923,"date":"2016-02-29T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/quantum-dot-solids-a-new-era-in-electronics"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:03:22","slug":"quantum-dot-solids-a-new-era-in-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/quantum-dot-solids-a-new-era-in-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Quantum dot solids: a new era in electronics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cornell.edu\/video\/quantum-dot-solids\/embed\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Quantum Dot Solids\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-dot-solids-a-new-era-in-electronics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"464\" \/><b><center>Connecting the dots: Playing \u2018LEGO\u2019 at the atomic scale to build atomically coherent quantum dot solids (credit: Kevin Whitham, Cornell University)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Just as the single-crystal silicon wafer forever changed the nature of communication 60 years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cornell<\/a> researchers hope their work with quantum dot solids \u2014 crystals made out of crystals \u2014 can help usher in a new era in electronics.<\/p>\n<p>The team has fashioned two-dimensional superstructures out of single-crystal building blocks. Using a pair of chemical processes, the lead-selenium nanocrystals are synthesized into larger crystals, then fused together to form atomically coherent square superlattices.<\/p>\n<p><em> Cornell University | Quantum dot solids<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The difference between these and previous crystalline structures is the atomic coherence of each 5-nanometer crystal (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter). They\u2019re not connected by a substance between each crystal \u2014 they\u2019re connected to each other directly. The electrical properties of these superstructures are potentially superior to existing semiconductor nanocrystals, with anticipated applications in energy absorption and light emission.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/quantum-dot-solids-a-new-era-in-electronics\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/quantum-dot-solids-a-new-era-in-electronics<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting the dots: Playing \u2018LEGO\u2019 at the atomic scale to build atomically coherent quantum dot solids (credit: Kevin Whitham, Cornell University) Just as the single-crystal silicon wafer forever changed the nature of communication 60 years ago, Cornell researchers hope their work with quantum dot solids \u2014 crystals made out of crystals \u2014 can help usher [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43435,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923\/revisions\/43435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}