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After All, What are Quantum Dots?
Date published: 2023-10-20
Date modified: 2023-10-20
Reading time: 00:00:55
“You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist.
You have to hit it.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
When the Nobel Prizes are awarded, the themes developed -the objects of the medal- are immediately brought to the forefront of media interest.
This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared by Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov.
But anyone who thinks that medals spring up like mushrooms after a rainstorm in Thailand is mistaken.
The truth is that Brus and Ekimov developed an impressive theoretical basis that became reality with Bawendi's work, published in 1993.
Surfing this frequency wave: what are quantum dots?
They are very, very small semiconductor crystals. They are made up of only a few thousand atoms that behave as if they were one. Therefore, they can be programmed to emit very specific light waves.
For example, cadmium yocto-dots can emit blue light, while the same dots in a larger arrangement, as atto-dots, can emit red light.
Quantum dots are a significant technological advance when applications require very fine wave tuning.
Yes, the TV will be much clearer. But what matters is the leap we will make in medical devices.
Keep in mind that this will only happen when chemistry has developed itself enough to control the still-wild quantum dots.
Planck was right. Science goes to one funeral after another.
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