Topics
Contributions can range from research concepts and ideas to technical issues and industrial applications, and are encouraged by, but not limited to, the themes and topics in the following areas:
- Covers innovative synthesis for controlling the composition, morphology, and size of colloidal QDs, alongside advanced surface engineering. It highlights fundamental mechanisms, such as precursor conversion and ligand exchange, and their decisive impact on material functionalities.
- Covers the spontaneous or directed assembly of QDs into superlattices and hierarchical structures. It highlights the underlying physics of assembly processes alongside the emergent collective properties of QD solids.
- Focuses on electronic and optical spectroscopy to probe exciton dynamics, transport, and magnetic properties. This session highlights nanophotonics and advanced electrical characterization to investigate underlying physical phenomena across various QD systems at both single-dot and ensemble levels.
- Covers computational approaches for QD systems, including DFT analysis of physical and chemical properties alongside multiscale modeling of carrier and exciton transport and light-matter interaction. It features machine learning for materials discovery, synthesis optimization, and the design of integrated QD systems.
- Explores recent advances in QD-based light sources such as next-generation displays, lighting, and quantum emitters. It emphasizes high efficiency and stability alongside advanced manufacturing techniques like inkjet printing and transfer printing.
- Covers the integration of colloidal QDs into energy conversion systems such as photovoltaics, infrared photodetectors, and photocatalysts. This session emphasizes advanced material design and device architectures to optimize performance across diverse light-harvesting and conversion platforms.
- Explores new QD functionalities such as neuromorphic computing, flexible electronics, therapeutics, bio-imaging, and chemical sensing. This session also highlights bioelectronics utilizing colloidal QDs for diverse in-vivo and in-vitro applications, showcasing the versatile potential of QD technologies.
- Focuses on advanced growth techniques such as MBE and MOCVD for high-quality epitaxial QDs. Topics include strain engineering, site-controlled growth, and structural/chemical characterization at the atomic scale.
- Exploration of chip-scale integration of QD-based photonic circuits. This includes the development of scalable quantum architectures and the generation of large-scale cluster states using epitaxial systems.
- Research on epitaxial QDs as hardware for quantum computing and networking, focusing on high-fidelity single-photon emission, entangled photon pairs, and the manipulation of electron/hole spin qubits.
- Dedicated to the physics and engineering of color centers in wide-bandgap materials (e.g., diamond, SiC). Covers synthesis, optical properties, and their roles in quantum sensing and solid-state quantum memory.
- Study of electrically defined quantum dots in semiconductor heterostructures. This includes charge sensing, tunable tunneling, and the control of quantum states via external gate voltages for spin electronics.
- Advances in high-performance devices based on epitaxial QDs, including QD lasers, superluminescent diodes, optical amplifiers, and high-speed modulators for telecommunications.
- Coupled systems with Epitaxial QDs Investigation of complex systems such as QD molecules, QD-cavity photonic coupling, QD-plasmon interactions, and van der Waals heterostructures (QD-2D material hybrids).
- A fundamental look at exciton physics across both systems. Topics cover many body effects, exciton-phonon interactions, ultrafast relaxation dynamics, and coherent control of excitonic states.
- Exploration of novel low-dimensional materials beyond traditional semiconductors, including halide perovskites, 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and other emerging nanostructures.
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