Academic Articles & Research Papers

Highly Luminescent Alkyl- and Alkoxy-Terminated Silicon Quantum Dots via Aging Following Single-Step Plasma Synthesis and Functionalization.

Bio-dissociable platinum quantum dot cluster nanozymes for nonhormonal endometriosis therapy through microenvironment remodeling.

Second hyperpolarizability of hexagonal graphene quantum dots: Effects of size and structural defects

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are nanosized fragments of graphene containing a bandgap caused by edge effects and quantum confinement. These features enable GQDs to have attractive photonics applications. During the preparation of graphene n...

A Novel Enhanced-Majority-Voter Universal Gate in Quantum Dot Cellular Automata with Energy Dissipation Analysis

The Quantum effects instigate to dominate device recital when transistor geometries are abridged. Sometimes, transistors refrain to have the properties that mark them beneficial for computational designs. With the intention of keeping pace ...

Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, and Chemistry

How will chemists contribute to the explosion in research at the micro and nano scale? In this Essay, an overview of the present and future possibilities for science and technology at these scales, and in particular how the chemistry commun...

Mixed Systems of Quaternary Ammonium Foam Drainage Agent with Carbon Quantum Dots and Silica Nanoparticles for Improved Gas Field Performance

Foam drainage agents enhance gas production by removing wellbore liquids. However, due to the ultra-high salinity environments of the Hechuan gas field (salinity up to 32.5 × 104 mg/L), no foam drainage agent is suitable for this gas field....

Toxicity and biodistribution comparison of functionalized nanodiamonds, quantum dot nanocarbons and gold nanoparticles

IntroductionNanomaterials are extensively utilized in applications ranging from electronics to biomedical therapies; however, their widespread use has prompted concerns about potential toxicity in humans. Understanding the biodistribution a...

Sequential generation of linear cluster states from a single photon emitter

Generating photonic cluster states using a single non-heralded source and a single entangling gate would optimise scalability and reduce resource overhead. Here, the authors generate up to 4-photon cluster states using a quantum dot coupled...

Improving Minutiae Image of Latent Fingerprint Detection on Non-Porous Surface Materials under UV Light Using Sulfur Doped Carbon Quantum Dots from Magnolia Grandiflora Flower

In this study, carbon quantum dots (CQDs) from Magnolia Grandiflora flower as a carbon precursor were obtained using a hydrothermal method under the optimized conditions affected by various heating times (14, 16, 18, and 20 min) and various...

Cadmium sulfide-induced toxicity in the cortex and cerebellum: In vitro and in vivo studies

Living organisms have an innate ability to regulate the synthesis of inorganic materials, such as bones and teeth in humans. Cadmium sulfide (CdS) can be utilized as a quantum dot that functions as a unique light-emitting semiconductor nano...

Photoluminescent Nanomaterials for Medical Biotechnology

Creation of various photoluminescent nanomaterials has significantly expanded the arsenal of approaches used in modern biomedicine. Their unique photophysical properties can significantly improve the sensitivity and specificity of diagnosti...

Flying electron spin control gates

Spin qubits are a platform for quantum computing. There are many advantages for quantum information processing if the spin qubit can move. Here, Helgers et al. use a surface acoustic wave to define a moving quantum dot and demonstrate the m...

Proposal for demonstration of long-range cluster state entanglement in the presence of photon loss

Photonic cluster states are a crucial resource for optical quantum computing. Recently a quantum dot single photon source has been demonstrated to produce strings of single photons in a small linear cluster state. Sources of this kind could...

Color‐Filter‐Free Image Sensor Using CsPbBr3 Quantum‐Dot‐Based Tamm Plasmon Photodetector for Photonic Synapse Facial Recognition

Abstract This study demonstrates that optical absorption of the CsPbBr3 quantum dots can be significantly enhanced through monolithic integration with the Tamm plasmon (TP) structure. This integration enables the resulting TP photodetector ...

Continuous monitoring biosensors for advanced healthcare and environmental applications: challenges, material innovations and future directions

This review critically discusses the development of continuous monitoring biosensors and the technological developments that have facilitated the transition from one-off or periodic measurement sensors to longer-term, connected and autonomo...

CsPbBr3/graphene nanowall artificial optoelectronic synapses for controllable perceptual learning

Abstract The rapid development of neuromorphic computing has stimulated extensive research interest in artificial synapses. Optoelectronic artificial synapses using laser beams as stimulus signals have the advantages of broadband, fast resp...

Spintronics and Quantum Dots for Quantum Computing and Quantum Communication

Control over electron-spin states, such as coherent manipulation, filtering and measurement promises access to new technologies in conventional as well as in quantum computation and quantum communication. We review our proposal of using ele...

Recipes for spinbased quantum computing

Abstract. Technological growth in the electronics industry has historically been measured by the number of transistors that can be crammed onto a single microchip. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end; spectacular growth in th...

Prospects for Spin-Based Quantum Computing in Quantum Dots

Experimental and theoretical progress toward quantum computation with spins in quantum dots (QDs) is reviewed, with particular focus on QDs formed in GaAs heterostructures, on nanowire-based QDs, and on self-assembled QDs. We report on a re...

Layered Architecture for Quantum Computing

We develop a layered quantum computer architecture, which is a systematic framework for tackling the individual challenges of developing a quantum computer while constructing a cohesive device design. We discuss many of the prominent techni...