Quantum Dot Application List
Is this list still being update SE?
Solar Applications
- TQD Flexible Solar Cells
- Size matters
- Researchers increase efficiency of cheaper Quantum Dot solar cells
- Solar cell constructed with ZnSe-coated ZnO nanowires
- Terrestrial
Projects
- Space-Based Solar Power
- Desertec
Third Generation PV
- tandem cells
- hot-carrier cells
- multiple-exciton-generation cells
- multiple-energy-level cells, e.g., intermediate-band cells
- thermophotolvoltaic and thermophotonic conversion
Full Spectrum Utilization
- next generation - high efficiency
Efficiencies - solar cells
- quantum efficiencies vs energy conversion efficiency
- sensitized
- hybrid
Energy/Environment
Toxicologic Report - not all QD's are alike physicochemically
Environmental impact
Solar Cells
- hybrid
- QD cells
- sensitized
Thermovoltaics
- Waste Heat Recovery - Emission reduction -
- PETE -- photon-enhanced thermionic emission
Fuel Cells
- SOFC's - solid oxide fuel cells
Displays/LED's
- Quantum Light - A new era in lighting and displays
Displays...
- e-readers
- e-paper ** video
- phones.
- cameras
- large area dynamic displays
- camera phones
QD-LED
- hi-efficiency low-power alternative ** video
Electronics /IT
RFID
- inventory control
- locator/tracking/remote monitoring
- product ID & sales
- security
- anti-counterfeiting - products and currencies
- product accountability and checkout
HDTV
- QDLED display panels - 4K 8K
- Enhanced picture quality
Computers
- flash memory
- antenna
- batteries
- spintronics ** video
- quantum computing
- paper computer ** video
Optics/Optoelectronics
- definition
- growth potential
- optical characterization of Electron Beam Evaporated CdSe nanoparticles...
- optical properties of normal and 'giant' multishell CdSe quantum dots...*
- optical Nanosensors Comprising Photoluminescent Nanostructures
- data transfer
- optical antennas
- pillar microcavities
Optics/Optoelectronics - Continued
Lasers
- printers
- miniature diodes
- data transmission
Nanoplasmonics
- plasmon waveguides
- plasmon-based sensors
- plasmon-assisted nanolithography
- Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) at metal/insulator interfaces
- Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)
NEMS/MEMS
- growth
- accelerometers and gyros - force and displacement sensors integrating nanotube NEMS
- MEMS based micromirror arrays for vision systems display applications - 3D holography
- MEMS marketplace - insights, trends, killer apps
- lateral alignment of epitaxial Quantum Dots
- Nanomechanics of NEMS
- MEMS/NEMS Devices - Microrobots and Nanorobots - What might they do?
- 3D heterostructures and systems for novel MEMS/NEMS
- medical MEMS
- nanomotors ** video
Healthcare/Life Sciences
Nanomedicine - Cell repair and drug delivery
Nanodiagnostics - Identify and isolate cell types
Surgery - Flesh welder
Cancer - Eradicating tumors
Texas Universities Novel Nanoparticle for Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Stem cell therapy monitoring for brain injuries
Biomedicine imaging
Nanotechnology in medicine
- surgery
- tissue engineering
- microneedles
Medical /Pharmaceutical
Nanobiotech
- highly sensitive cellular imaging
- ability to image single-cell migration
- active and passive targeting
- delivering a gene-silencing tool, known as siRNA
- in vivo diagnostics
Nanocrystal Pharmaceuticals
- drug/peptide cargo-carriers
- Lab-on-a-Chip
Drug Delivery
- targeted cell destruction
Infection Control
- Killing Viruses
Manufacturing/Materials
Clothing.
-solar
-ink stamps
Aerospace/Automotive
- radiation hardened electronics
- image sensors
Oil /Gas
Flow Assurance - recovery process for oil and gas
MILITARY/DEFENSE
- counter espionage
Weaponry Components
- high precision explosives through nanoscale structuring
- patterning high explosives at the nanoscale
- integrated (wearable) support
- free-electron lasers
- night vision equipment
- camouflague
Weird Science
- entanglement
- cloaking ** video
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Danny
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