Colloidal Quantum Dot Optoelectronics and Photovoltaics

Gerasimos Konstantatos is an Assistant Professor at the Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO) in Barcelona. His research interests lie in the area of nanomaterials and nanostructures for optoelectronics and solar cell applications. His expertise is in the field of colloidal quantum dots and his work has been published in a series of journals and received broad media coverage. Edward H. Sargent is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology. His book The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives (2005) has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Korean and Arabic. He is a Founder and CTO of InVisage Technologies, Inc.

1. Engineering colloidal quantum dots: synthesis, surface chemistry and self-assembly Maryna I. Bodnarchuk and Maksym Kovalenko; 2. Aqueous based colloidal quantum dots for optoelectronics Nikolai Gaponik and Vladimir Lesnyak; 3. Electronic structure and optical transitions in colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals Todd D. Krauss and Jeffrey J. Peterson; 4. Charge and energy transfer in polymer/nanocrystal blends: physics and devices David Ginger and Kevin Noone; 5. Multiple exciton generation in semiconductor quantum dots and electronically coupled QD arrays for application to third generation photovoltaic solar cells M. C. Beard, J. M. Luther and A. J. Nozik; 6. Colloidal quantum dot light emitting diodes Vanessa Wood, Matt Panzer, Seth-Coe Sullivan and Vladimir Bulovic; 7. Optical gain and lasing in colloidal quantum dots Sjoerd Hoogland; 8. Solution-processed quantum dot photodetectors Gerasimos Konstantatos; 9. Solution processed infrared quantum dot solar cells Jiang Tang and Edward Sargent; 10. Heterojunction solar cells based on colloidal quantum dots Delia J. Milliron and Jeffrey J. Urban; 11. Semiconductor sensitized TiO2 mesoporous solar cells Etgar Lioz, Hyo Joong Lee, Sang Il Seok, Md. K. Nazeeruddin and Michael Graetzel.