July Lecture: Quantum dots - artificial atoms
Fri 11 Jul 08 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre A (adjacent to the School of Physics)
Presented by Professor Paul Mulvaney, Bio 21 Institute, University of Melbourne
LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Trapping electrons in nanoscale semiconductor particles leads to materials with remarkable new properties. Carefully tailored particles called quantum dots confine electrons so that they emit brilliant colours when stimulated by ultraviolet light. Making the particles for specific applications requires many ingenious tricks. But these quantum dots are finding many new applications wherever colours are needed including labelling biological molecules in living cells to trace biochemical reaction pathways.
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