Automated synthesis of photovoltaic-quality colloidal quantum dots using separate nucleation and growth stages

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 10158-10166

  Pan, Jun ^a   El Ballouli, Ala'A O ^a   Rollny, Lisa ^b   Voznyy, Oleksandr ^b   Burlakov, Victor M ^c   Goriely, Alain ^c   Sargent, Edward H ^b   Bakr, Osman M ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

colloidal quantum dots; flow reactor; PbS; photovoltaics; scalable manufacturing; synthesis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SYNTHESIS; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; FLOW REACTORS; HIGH-QUALITY MATERIALS; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; PBS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; PHOTOVOLTAICS;

AUTOMATION; OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84888866319     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn404397d     Document Type: Article

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