Bright silicon quantum dot synthesis and LED design: insights into size–ligand–property relationships from slow-and fast-band engineering

K Saitow - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Multicolor, bright silicon quantum dots (SiQDs)—SiQDs with photoluminescence in a range
of colors and quantum yields (PLQYs) of> 90%—are promising heavy-metal-free light …

Site-controlled and advanced epitaxial Ge/Si quantum dots: Fabrication, properties, and applications

M Brehm, M Grydlik - Nanotechnology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review, we report on fabrication paths, challenges, and emerging solutions to
integrate group-IV epitaxial quantum dots (QDs) as active light emitters into the existing …

Silicon nanoparticles with surface nitrogen: 90% quantum yield with narrow luminescence bandwidth and the ligand structure based energy law

Q Li, TY Luo, M Zhou, H Abroshan, J Huang, HJ Kim… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Silicon nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely accepted as an alternative material for typical
quantum dots and commercial organic dyes in light-emitting and bioimaging applications …

Cost-Effective Ultrabright Silicon Quantum Dots and Highly Efficient LEDs from Low-Carbon Hydrogen Silsesquioxane Polymers

H Ueda, K Saitow - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cost-effective methods of synthesizing bright colloidal silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) for use
as heavy-metal-free QDs, which have applications as light sources in biomedicine and …

Designing efficient Si quantum dots and LEDs by quantifying ligand effects

T Ono, Y Xu, T Sakata, K Saitow - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The impact of colloidal silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) on next-generation light sources is
promising. However, factors determining the efficiency of SiQDs, such as the …

Cost-effective synthesis of silicon quantum dots

S Terada, Y Xin, K Saitow - Chemistry of Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
Silicon (Si) nanomaterials with bright luminescence in the visible region are promising
materials for use as the next-generation light source in displays, lighting, and biomedical …

Near-unity internal quantum efficiency of luminescent silicon nanocrystals with ligand passivation

F Sangghaleh, I Sychugov, Z Yang, JGC Veinot… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Spectrally resolved photoluminescence (PL) decays were measured for samples of
colloidal, ligand-passivated silicon nanocrystals. These samples have PL emission energies …

Bright silicon nanocrystals from a liquid precursor: Quasi-direct recombination with high quantum yield

TA Pringle, KI Hunter, A Brumberg, KJ Anderson… - Acs Nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) with bright bandgap photoluminescence (PL) are of current
interest for a range of potential applications, from solar windows to biomedical contrast …

Ligand effects on photoluminescence and electroluminescence of silicon quantum dots for light-emitting diodes

Y Xu, S Terada, Y Xin, H Ueda… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Colloidal silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) may potentially minimize the environmental impact of
commercial LEDs and advance next-generation light sources. Many studies have …

Low-Cost Synthesis of Silicon Quantum Dots with Near-Unity Internal Quantum Efficiency

J Zhou, J Huang, H Chen, A Samanta… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
As a cost-effective batch synthesis method, Si quantum dots (QDs) with near-infrared
photoluminescence, high quantum yield (> 50% in polymer nanocomposite), and near-unity …