CBE Seminar (Zoom): Superlattice Fabrication for Designer Mesoscale Quantum Dot Solids

Abstract: Epitaxially fused quantum dot superlattices (QD epi-SLs) are a unique material projected to achieve charge transport similar to that of bulk semiconductors while also retaining the size- and surface chemistry-tunable photophysics of individual QDs. This talk will give a brief introduction to the field of QD solids, as well as discuss the research group's efforts to understand the formation mechanism behind our PbSe epi-SLs and how to utilize this knowledge in improving overall epi-SL fabrication and quality.

Bio: Caroline Qian is starting her fifth year as a chemical engineering doctoral student at UCI. She graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2016 with bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry, and she joined Associate Professor Matt Law's research group in early 2017 to begin work on QD epi-SLs.