The field of colloidal synthesis of semiconductors emerged 40 years ago and has reached a
certain level of maturity thanks to the use of nanocrystals as phosphors in commercial …

Lasers and optical amplifiers based on solution-processable materials have been long-
desired devices for their compatibility with virtually any substrate, scalability, and ease of …

Semiconductor nanocrystals represent a promising class of solution-processable optical-
gain media that can be manipulated via inexpensive, easily scalable colloidal techniques …

Metal halide perovskite semiconductors hold a strong promise for enabling thin‐film laser
diodes. Perovskites distinguish themselves from other non‐epitaxial media primarily through …

Abstract 2D materials are considered for applications that require strong light-matter
interaction because of the apparently giant oscillator strength of the exciton transitions in the …

Given the current needs for lasers on flexible substrates or as disposable, low-cost
appliances, solution-processable lasers based on tunable colloidal quantum dots (QD) …

The typical synthesis protocol for blue-emitting CdSe nanoplatelets (NPLs) yields particles
with extended lateral dimensions and large surface areas, resulting in NPLs with poor …

Hot phonon bottleneck (HPB), one of the dominant effects for tuning hot carrier (HC) cooling,
has been extensively studied in lead halide perovskites (LHP), and most attention has been …

Colloidal nanoplatelets (NPLs) are promising materials for lasing applications. The
properties are usually discussed in the framework of 2D materials, where strong excitonic …

Low-dimensional semiconductors hold strong promise for future energy applications. These
nanomaterials are inexpensive to process and offer a broad spectrum of attractive quantum …