▪ Abstract We review the rapid progress made in our understanding of the crystal properties
of semiconductors and nanocrystals focussing on theoretical results obtained within the …

This review focuses on recent progress in the study of doped semiconductor nanocrystals
prepared by direct solution chemical routes. The emphasis is on materials that can be …

Femtosecond transient absorption in the visible and infrared spectral ranges has been
applied to study carrier dynamics and mechanisms for resonant optical nonlinearities in …

Femtosecond (fs) broad-band transient absorption (TA) is used to study the intraband
relaxation and depopulation dynamics of electron and hole quantized states in CdSe …

Concentrated colloidal solutions of well-dispersed YVO4: Eu nanoparticles are synthesized
by precipitation reactions at room temperature and stabilized by sodium …

Efficient Cu-doped InP quantum dots (Cu: InP d-dots) emitters were successfully synthesized
by epitaxial growth of a ZnSe diffusion barrier for the dopants. The Cu dopant emission of …

Oxide materials doped with lanthanide ions are technologically important, for example as
laser materials and in lighting applications. Here the wet‐chemical synthesis of lanthanide …

Optical properties are among the most fascinating and useful properties of nanomaterials
and have been extensively studied using a variety of optical spectroscopic techniques. A …

Understanding the dynamic properties of charge carriers at the liquid− semiconductor
interface is critical to many applications including photocatalysis, solar energy conversion …

Nonstoichiometric cadmium sulfide nanoparticles ([Cd2+]/[S2-]= 3) in 2-propanol were
surface-modified with Cu2+ ions. Addition of copper (II) perchlorate to CdS nanoparticles …