Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Blue light-emitting diodes based on colloidal quantum dots with reduced surface-bulk coupling

  • Xingtong Chen,
  • Xiongfeng Lin,
  • Likuan Zhou,
  • Xiaojuan Sun,
  • Rui Li,
  • Mengyu Chen,
  • Yixing Yang,
  • Wenjun Hou,
  • Longjia Wu,
  • Weiran Cao,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Xiaolin Yan,
  • Song Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35954-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The surface localized charges in colloidal quantum dots induce a degradation that limits the electroluminescence performance. Here, Chen et al. propose quantum dots with monmonotonically-graded core/shell/shell structures to boost the device’s performance by reducing the surface-bulk coupling.