Decades of research brings quantum dots to brink of widespread use

A team of researchers from University of Chicago, the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, and international institutions wrote an article that gives an overview of almost three decades of research into colloidal quantum dots, assesses the technological progress for these nanometer-sized specs of semiconductor matter, and weighs the remaining challenges on the path to widespread commercialization for this promising technology, with applications in everything from TVs to highly efficient sunlight collectors.