Recent advancements in quantum dot solar cells have led to significant improvements in their power conversion efficiency. Researchers have achieved efficiencies exceeding 16% in laboratory-scale ...

Scientists from South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have developed hybrid tandem solar cells with quantum dots and organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ ...

Quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) are an innovative type of solar technology that utilizes quantum dots—tiny semiconductor particles that can absorb and emit light—to convert ...

Quantum materials are among the new materials used for developing solar cells, with different types of quantum dots receiving special attention. Quantum dots containing various materials like lead ...

Chinese researchers have built a perovskite quantum dot solar cell that is reportedly able to reduce trap-assisted charge carrier recombination. The device has an open-circuit voltage of 1.23 V ...

Quantum Dot Intermediate Band Solar Cells (QD-IBSCs) represent an innovative approach in solar energy technology, aiming to enhance the efficiency of solar cells beyond traditional limits.

In this chapter, we will discuss solar cells fabricated with Pb‐chalcogenides colloidal quantum dots. In the last ten years, thanks to the developments of stable colloidal quantum dots inks based on ...

In early 2020, a team of researchers at University of Queensland announced that it had managed to break the world record for quantum dot solar cells. The UQ researchers did so by synthesizing a ...

(Image: NASA) Quantum dots have found applications in composites, solar cells (Grätzel cells) and fluorescent biological labels (for example to trace a biological molecule) which use both the small ...

Researchers have studied quantum dots in transistors, solar cells, LEDs, and diode lasers. They have also investigated quantum dots as agents for medical imaging and hope to use them as qubits.