In the past two decades, semiconductor quantum dots and wires have developed into new,
promising classes of materials for next‐generation lighting and display systems due to their …

Optical polarization features associated with the fundamental processes of molecular
fluorescence and resonance energy transfer are in general studied with reference to plane …

We report on an anomalous size dependence of the room-temperature photoluminescence
decay time from the lowest-energy state of PbS quantum dots in colloidal solution, which …

The study of supercrystals made of periodically arranged semiconductor quantum dots is
essential for the advancement of emerging nanophotonics technologies. By combining the …

The influence of the chirality of semiconductor nanocrystals, CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs)
capped with L-and D-cysteine, on the efficiency of their uptake by living Ehrlich Ascite …

For centuries mankind has been modifying the optical properties of materials: first, by
elaborating the geometry and composition of structures made of materials found in nature …

Since chiral nanoparticles are much smaller than the optical wavelength, their enantiomers
show little difference in the interaction with circularly polarized light. This scale mismatch …

We present a systematic experimental study along with theoretical modeling of the energy
transfer in an ensemble of closely packed CdTe colloidal nanocrystals identified as the …

Featured Application Our results on the quantum electronic dynamics of quantum dots pave
the way to several applications in nanoscience. The large density of purely excitonic …

We present a theoretical study of the stationary photoluminescence of two, direct-gap,
semiconductor nanocrystals, taking into account electronic excitation energy-transfer …