II- VI quantum dots

Research on semiconductor nanoparticle technology by chemists, materials scientists, and physicists has already led to the fabrication of a number of devices. Initially, Alivisatos and co-workers developed an electroluminescence device from a dispersion of CdSe nanoparticles capped with a conducting polymer349 and then improved on this by replacing the polymer with a layer of CdS, producing a device with efficiency and lifetime increased by factors of 8 and 10, respectively. 0 Chemical synthetic methods for the assembly of nanocrystal composites, consisting of II-VI quantum dot polymer composite materials,351 represent one important step towards the fabrication of new functional devices that incorporate quantum dots. 

Murray C. B. (1995), PhD Thesis Synthesis and Characterization of II-VI Quantum Dots and Their Assembly into 3D Quantum Dot Superlattices, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

S.V. Kershaw, M.T. Harrison, A.L. Rogach, A. Komowski, Development of IR-Emitting Colloidal II-VI Quantum-Dot Materials, IEEE. Select. Topics in Quantum Electronics 6 (2000) 534 543. 

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