• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.1776-1782
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• 2005

ZnSe/ZnS, UV-blue luminescent core shell quantum dots, were synthesized via a thermal decomposition reaction of organometallic zinc and solvent coordinated Selenium (TOPSe) in a hot solvent mixture. The synthetic conditions of the core (ZnSe) and the shell (ZnS) were independently studied at various reaction temperature conditions. The obtained colloidal nanocrystals at corresponding temperatures were characterized for their optical properties by UV-vis, room temperature solution photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy, and further obtained powders were characterized by XRD, TEM, and EDXS analyses. The synthetic temperature condition to obtain the best PL emission intensity for the ZnSe core was 300 ${^{\circ}C}$, and for the optimum shell capping, the temperature was 135 ${^{\circ}C}$. At this temperature, solution PL spectrum showed a narrow emission peak at 427 nm with a PL efficiency of 15%. In addition, the measured particle sizes for the ZnSe/ZnS nanocomposite via TEM were in the range of 5 to 12 nm. Furthermore, we have synthesized water-soluble ZnSe/ZnS nanoparticles by capping the ZnSe/ZnS hydrophobic surface with mercaptoacetate (MAA) molecules. For the obtained aqueous colloidal solution, the UV-vis spectrum showed an absorption peak at 250 nm, and the solution PL emission spectrum showed a peak at 425 nm, which is similar to that for hydrophobic quantum dot ZnSe/ZnS. However, the calculated PL efficiency was relatively low (0.1%) due to the luminescence quenching by water and MAA molecules. The capping ligand was also characterized by FT-IR spectroscopy, with the carbonyl stretching peak in the mercaptoacetate molecule appearing at 1575 $cm ^{-1}$. Finally, the particle sizes of the MAA capped ZnSe/ZnS were measured by TEM, showing a range of 12 to 17 nm.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.169-179
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• 2024

양자점 패터닝 기술은 최근 QLED, 센서, laser, 태양전지, 양자컴퓨터 등을 포함한 광전자 응용분야에서 많은 수요가 예상되고 있다. 최근 양자점 패터닝을 위한 다양한 기술이 등장했지만 여전히 실제 산업에 적용에는 힘든 실정이다. 1~100 ㎛에 걸친 다양한 패턴 크기를 구현할 수 있는 전사프린팅은 대면적화가 어렵고 공정과정 중 발생할 수 있는 양자점 필름의 불완전한 박리 문제로 인한 패터닝 수율 문제가 보고 되고 있다. 기존 반도체 공정을 활용할 수 있는 포토리소그래피를 활용한 양자점 패터닝은 초고해상도로 픽셀을 패터닝 할 수 있다는 장점이 있지만, 포토레지스트를 제거하기 위해 쓰이는 용매에 의해 양자점 패턴 자체가 손상될 수도 있고 오염되어 광 효율이 낮아질 수 있다는 우려가 있다. 포토레지스트를 사용하지 않고 양자점의 용해도를 활용한 직접 광경화 공정이 주목받았지만, 패터닝 과정 중 생기는 결함과 비방사성 재결합으로 인해 양자점의 발광 효율이 떨어진다는 단점이 있어 표면 처리 등의 연구가 더욱 요구된다. 잉크젯 프린팅은 대면적화가 쉽고 상대적으로 경제적이라는 장점이 있으나 패턴의 불균일성과 낮은 해상도의 단점이 있다. 다양한 양자점 패터닝 방법 기술개발을 통해 QLED 소자에만 국한되는 것이 아니라 태양전지, 양자 통신, 양자 컴퓨터 등에도 적용이 기대된다.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.81-88
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• 2006

다중 적층법을 이용하여 수평방향으로 자기정렬된 InGaAs/GaAs 양자점(quantum dot, QD)을 제작하고, 원자력간 현미경(AFM) 사진과 발광(PL) 스펙트럼을 이용하여 QD의 특성을 분석하였다. 적층주기가 증가함에 따라 정렬 QD의 길이가 길어지고, 임계 성장온도 이상에서는 QD 사이의 상호확 산에 의하여 양자선 형태로 변화함을 관측하였다. 성장 변수가 서로 다른 4개 시료의 비교 분석을 통하여, 수직으로 적층되면서 비등방성 정렬이 이루어지고, 수 ${\mu}m$ 이상 1차원적으로 정렬된 QD 사슬 모양 의 구조를 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 성장일시멈춤 과정을 통한 이주시간의 증가는 QD의 1차윈 정렬에 중요한 변수임을 알 수 있었다. 고온에서 덮개층을 형성한 QD 구조에서 관측된 발광 에너지의 청색변위 현상은 InGaAs QD로부터 In이 덮개층으로 확산되었기 때문으로 해석된다.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.157-167
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• 2014

Colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cells have attracted great attention due to their cost-effectiveness and solution-processability, as well as their size-dependent optical and electrical properties. The power conversion efficiency of CQD solar cells has rapidly increased up to ~8.6%, which corresponds to the 3 - 4 fold improvement during the last 3 - 4 years. Up to now, there have been many pioneering results in CQD solar cells. Here, we review the recent progress of CQD solar cells including CQD synthesis strategy and device structure engineering.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.135.2-135.2
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• 2014

Photon conversion technology for thin film solar cells is reviewed. The high-energy photons which are hardly absorbed in solar cells can be transformed the low energy photon by the photon conversion process such as down conversion or down shift, which can improve the solar cell efficiency over the material limit. CdSe-based quantum dot materials commonly used in LED can be used as the photon conversion layer for Si thin film solar cells. The photon conversion structure of CdSe-based quantum dot for Si thin film solar cells will be presented and the pros and cons for the Si thin film solar cells integrated with the photon conversion layers will be discussed.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.284-287
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• 2012

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is one of the few alternative computing platforms that has the potential to be a promising technology because of higher speed, smaller size, and lower power consumption in comparison with CMOS technology. This letter proposes an optimized full comparator for implementation in QCA. The proposed design is compared with previous works in terms of complexity, area, and delay. In comparison with the best previous full comparator, our design has 64% and 85% improvement in cell count and area, respectively. Also, it is implemented with only one clock cycle. The obtained results show that our full comparator is more efficient in terms of cell count, complexity, area, and delay compared to the previous designs. Therefore, this structure can be simply used in designing QCA-based circuits.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.151-155
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• 2014

We have developed quantum dot light emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) using a InP/ZnSe/ZnS multi-shell QD emission layer. The hybrid structure of organic hole transport layer/QD/organic electron transport layer was used for fabricating QD-LEDs. Poly(4-butylphenyl-diphenyl-amine) (poly-TPD) and tris[2,4,6-trimethyl-3-(pyridin-3-yl)phenyl]borane (3TPYMB) molecules were used as hole-transporting and electron-transporting layers, respectively. The emission, current efficiency, and driving characteristics of QD-LEDs with 50, 65 nm thick 3TPYMB layers were investigated. The QD-LED with a 50 nm thick 3TPYMB layer exhibited a maximum current efficiency of 1.3 cd/A.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.65-70
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• 2014

This paper presents the simulation and design of an all-optical subtractor using a quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometer (QD-SOA MZI) structure consisting of two cascaded switches, the first of which produces the differential bit. Then the second switch produces the borrow bit by using the output of the first switch and the subtrahend data stream. Simulation results were obtained by solving the rate equations of the QD-SOA. The effects of QD-SOA length, peak power and current density have been investigated. The designed gate can operate at speeds of over 250 Gb/s. The simulation results demonstrate a high extinction ratio and a clear and wide-opening eye diagram.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.126-129
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• 2015

Over the last two decades, quantum dot (QD) solar cells have attracted much attention due to the unique properties of QDs, including band gap tunability, slow hot electron cooling, and multiple exiton generation effect. However, most of the QDs employed in photovoltaic devices contain toxic heavy-metals such as cadmium or lead, which may limit the commercial application. Therefore, recently, heavy-metal-free QDs such as Cu-In-S or Cu-In-Se have been developed for application in solar cells. Here, we review the research trends in heavy-metal-free QD solar cells, mainly focusing on Cu-In-Se QD-sensitized solar cells (QDSC).

• 산업식품공학
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2010

C-Reactive protein (CRP), which is an 118 kDa pentameric protein, was secreted by the liver is an important biomarker for coronary disease, hypertension and inflammation. In this study, a method for CRP detection exploiting quantum dot (Qdot)-antibody conjugate was developed according to an indirect-competitive immunosensing protocol. For this purpose, a streptavidin-bound $Qdot_{605}$ was linked with a separately prepared biotinylated monoclonal antirat CRP antibody to produce a Qdot-antibody conjugate. The immunosensing was performed at 0.1 and 20 nM of the coating antigen and conjugate, respectively. The current method was found very sensitive in CRP detection, judging from the concentration-dependent fluorescence emission.