Colloidal quantum dots as platforms for quantum information science

CR Kagan, LC Bassett, CB Murray… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are nanoscale semiconductor crystals with surface ligands
that enable their dispersion in solvents. Quantum confinement effects facilitate wave function …

Single dopants in semiconductors

PM Koenraad, ME Flatté - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
The sensitive dependence of a semiconductor's electronic, optical and magnetic properties
on dopants has provided an extensive range of tunable phenomena to explore and apply to …

Nanostructured manganese oxides: natural/artificial formation and their induced catalysis for wastewater remediation

S Zhu, SH Ho, C Jin, X Duan, S Wang - Environmental Science: Nano, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Manganese oxides, with low toxicity and wide adaptability, have been demonstrated as
promising catalysts for substituting noble metals/oxides in a diversity of chemical reactions …

Designing quantum dots for solotronics

J Kobak, T Smoleński, M Goryca, M Papaj… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Solotronics, optoelectronics based on solitary dopants, is an emerging field of research and
technology reaching the ultimate limit of miniaturization. It aims at exploiting quantum …

Ultra-long-working-distance spectroscopy of single nanostructures with aspherical solid immersion microlenses

A Bogucki, Ł Zinkiewicz, M Grzeszczyk… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
In light science and applications, equally important roles are played by efficient light
emitters/detectors and by the optical elements responsible for light extraction and delivery …

Detecting excitation and magnetization of individual dopants in a semiconductor

AA Khajetoorians, B Chilian, J Wiebe, S Schuwalow… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
An individual magnetic atom doped into a semiconductor is a promising building block for
bottom-up spintronic devices and quantum logic gates,,. Moreover, it provides a perfect …

Spin-transfer torque on a single magnetic adatom

F Delgado, JJ Palacios, J Fernández-Rossier - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
We theoretically show how the spin orientation of a single magnetic adatom can be
controlled by spin polarized electrons in a scanning tunneling microscope configuration. The …

Hydrothermal synthesis of water-soluble Mn-and Cu-doped CdSe quantum dots with multi-shell structures and their photoluminescence properties

H Nishimura, K Enomoto, YJ Pu, DG Kim - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) can be tuned by doping with
transition metal ions. In this study, water-soluble CdSe/ZnS: Mn/ZnS QDs with the …

Tuning magnetic properties of two-dimensional MoTe2 monolayer by doping 3d transition metals: Insights from first principles calculations

MB Kanoun - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2018 - Elsevier
Report on systematic study of the effect of transition metal atom doping in MoTe 2 monolayer
on electronic and magnetic properties using first principles calculations within the density …

Quantum oscillations in magnetically doped colloidal nanocrystals

ST Ochsenbein, DR Gamelin - Nature nanotechnology, 2011 - nature.com
Progress in the synthesis of colloidal quantum dots has recently provided access to entirely
new forms of diluted magnetic semiconductors, some of which may find use in quantum …