Colloidal Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes: Materials and Devices

Explore all the core components for the commercialization of quantum dot light emitting diodes

Quantum dot light emitting diodes (QDLEDs) are a technology with the potential to revolutionize solid-state lighting and displays. Due to the many applications of semiconductor nanocrystals, of which QDLEDs are an example, they also hold the potential to be adapted into other emerging semiconducting technologies. As a result, it is critical that the next generation of engineers and materials scientists understand these diodes and their latest developments.

Colloidal Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes: Materials and Devices offers a comprehensive introduction to this subject and its most recent research advancements. Beginning with a summary of the theoretical foundations and the basic methods for chemically synthesizing colloidal semiconductor quantum dots, it identifies existing and future applications for these groundbreaking technologies. The result is tailored to produce a thorough understanding of this area of research.

Colloidal Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes readers will also find:

• An author with decades of experience in the field of organic electronics
• Detailed discussion of topics including advanced display technologies, the patent portfolio and commercial considerations, and more
• Strategies and design techniques for improving device performance

Colloidal Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes is ideal for material scientists, electronics engineers, inorganic and solid-state chemists, solid-state and semiconductor physicists, photochemists, and surface chemists, as well as the libraries that support these professionals.

Hong Meng, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Advanced Materials at the Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, China. After receiving his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2002, he has spent the last twenty years of his career working at the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, and DuPont Experimental Station.