National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)...

JCNN News Summaries - Japan Corporate News Network;  April 5, 2006 ;     337 words ......Apr 5, 2006 - (JCN) - The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science...high quality fluorescent quantum dots, and the development of...DNA/RNA measurements using quantum dots. Additionally, AIST has...antibodies (immunoblotting). The quantum dots are particles of ...

Quantum dots for use in bodies.

United Press International;  January 22, 2004 ;     642 words ......The crystals in question are called quantum dots. Each is made of only a few hundred...cadmium selenide. When they absorb energy, quantum dots fluoresce, emitting light in a variety...told UPI. Medical researchers could use quantum dots to circulate inside bodies and stick...

QUANTUM DOTS FOR USE IN BODIES

United Press International;  January 22, 2004 ;     665 words ...United Press International 01-22-2004 Quantum dots for use in bodies NEW YORK, Jan 22...The crystals in question are called quantum dots. Each is made of only a few hundred...cadmium selenide. When they absorb energy, quantum dots fluoresce, emitting light in a variety...

Quantum leap for quantum dots

The Scientist;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Researchers finally make quantum dots work for life scientists High-resolution...fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals or "quantum dots." Containing several hundred to a few thousand atoms, quantum dots exhibit several desirable properties...

Sandia Researchers Use Quantum Dots as New Approach to Solid-State...

AScribe Science News Service;  July 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ......solid-state white light-emitting device using quantum dots. In the future, the use of quantum dots as light-emitting phosphors may represent...is based on encapsulating semiconductor quantum dots - nanoparticles approximately one billionth...

Quantum dots light up cancer cells in mice.(Nanotechnology)(Brief Article)

Science News;  August 7, 2004 ;     263 words ......nanometer-size semiconductor crystals known as quantum dots, researchers recently opened a new way...detecting cancer, scientists have now used quantum dots to track down and light up cancer cells...made with elements such as cadmium, quantum dots are toxic, making them ...

Quantum Dots for Solid-State Lighting.

Energy Optimization News;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......solid-state white light-emitting device using quantum dots. In the future, the use of quantum dots as light- emitting phosphors may represent...is based on encapsulating semiconductor quantum dots-nanoparticles approximately one billionth...

Quantum Dots That Produce White Light Could Be Light Bulb's Successor.

AScribe Business & Economics News Service;  October 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ......of special microscopic beads called quantum dots. And you have what could become the...of the incandescent lamp. Until now quantum dots have been known primarily for their...University discovered a way to make quantum dots spontaneously produce broad-spectrum...

LIGHT TOUCH: CONTROLLING BEHAVIOR OF QUANTUM DOTS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 19, 2008 ;     540 words ......Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards & Technology...Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology...the light coming from quantum dots by manipulating them with...significantly improve quantum dots as a source of pairs ...

Researchers use quantum dots for lighting.(Assembly Lines)

Assembly;  September 1, 2003 ;     508 words ......first while light emitting device using quantum dots. In the future, the use of quantum dots as light-emitting phosphors may represent...is based on encapsulating semiconductor quantum dots--nanoparticles approximately one billionth...

Researchers control behavior of quantum dots with lasers

The Hindustan Times;  August 20, 2008 ;     459 words ......Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology...fine-tune the light coming from quantum dots by manipulating them with...could significantly improve quantum dots as a source of pairs of...NIST-JQI team is to develop quantum dots as a convenient ...

BIOTAGS: Quantum Dots Label Living Mice.

Biomolecular Diagnostics News;  June 1, 2003 ;     456 words ......labels, molecule-size nanocrystals called quantum dots, which can circulate through the bloodstream...issue of Science titled Water-Soluble Quantum Dots for Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging...demonstrated a new approach to using quantum dots for biological studies of living animals...

Cheaper solar panels.(In The News: Short news items of interest to the...

Science and Children;  July 1, 2007 ;     301 words ......molecular specks of semi-conductors called quantum dots, a discovery that could clear the way...making four-legged cadmium selenide quantum dots, which previous research has shown to...chemical and biomolecular engineering. Quantum dots are megamolecules of semi-conducting...

British, New Zealand Inventors Develop Quantum Dots Forming Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 9, 2007 ;     389 words ......have developed a method of forming quantum dots for extended wavelength operation. According...optoelectronic device incorporating semiconductor quantum dots whose ground state emission occurs at...provided by forming a first layer of quantum dots covered by a spacer layer with ...

PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION Quantum Dots Spontaneously Form White...

Nanoparticle News;  November 1, 2005 ;     577 words ...Quantum dots are known primarily for their ability...University have discovered a method to make quantum dots spontaneously produce broad-spectrum...batches of ever-decreasing, small-sized, quantum dots that he could study. Ultimately Bowers...