SBIR Phase I: A New Scale-Up Technology for Industrial Production of High Quality Semiconductor Nanocrystals

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在开发一种用于高质量半导体纳米晶体工业生产的新技术。半导体纳米晶体是相应块状晶体的纳米大小的碎片，在各种电子和光电子应用中显示出巨大的潜力。目前，所有这些商业应用都依赖于高质量的半导体纳米晶体的大规模可用性和可承受的价格。新的设计最大限度地提高了学术机构开发的现有批量合成方案的能力，尽管它具有连续生产的性质。这样，所得到的纳米晶体的质量和数量都得到了保证，并且生产的优化最小化。只要相关的批量合成可用，所提出的技术应可扩展到其他类型的胶体纳米晶体的工业生产。胶体半导体纳米晶体在电子与光电应用领域的商业价值在于大面积显示、便携式电子器件、集成电路刻印、太阳能电池等。一个数十亿美元的电子设备生产市场正在迅速发展。对于所有这些设备来说，价格合理的胶体纳米晶体发挥着至关重要的作用，并将占据相当大的市场份额。可以预见，任何这些积极的商业开发的成功将为生产高质量的半导体纳米晶体打开一个经济上重要的市场。同样，价格合理的商业生产技术的存在将促进纳米晶体在电子和光电子应用方面的所有商业努力。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project intends to develop a new technology for the industrial production of high quality semiconductor nanocrystals. Semiconductor nanocrystals are nanometer sized fragments of the corresponding bulk crystals, which have shown great potential for a variety of electronic and optoelectronic applications. At present, all of those commercial applications rely on the availability of high quality semiconductor nanocrystals on a large scale with an affordable price. The new design maximizes the power of the existing batch synthetic schemes developed in academic institutions, although it possesses a continuous production nature. In this way, the quality and the quantity of the resulting nanocrystals are both guaranteed and the optimization of the production is minimized. The proposed technology should be extendable to the industrial production of other types of colloidal nanocrystals as long as the related batch synthesis is available.The commercial value of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals in the field of electronic and optoelectronic applications lies on large area display, portable electronic devices, imprinting of integrated circuits, solar cells, etc. A multi-billion dollar market for the production of those electronic devices is in rapid development. For all of those devices, colloidal nanocrystals with an affordable price play a vital role, and will have a significant share of the market. It can be predicted that the success of any of those active commercial developments will open an economically significant market for the production of high quality semiconductor nanocrystals. It is also true that the existence of a commercial production technology with an affordable price will promote all of those commercial efforts on electronic and optoelectronic applications of nanocrystals.