Article Abstracts | May 2007
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Are Quantum Dots on the Brink of Their Big Break?
by Michael A. Greenwood, News Editor
The period at the end of this sentence would be colossal next to a quantum dot — like a flea clinging to a good-size dog.
As many as a million quantum dots could perhaps fit within the narrow confines of this circle: o.
In other words, quantum dots are small, but what these semiconductor nanocrystals lack in mass they make up for with myriad other qualities that have researchers, businesses and entrepreneurs imagining a vivid future...
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