SBIR Phase I: Affordable Multicolor Nanocrystal Emitters at Electronic Grade

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）项目是开发负担得起的纳米晶体发射器的光电应用。半导体纳米晶在许多领域具有潜在的应用价值。然而，由于所制造的器件的低亮度和低效率，它们在光电器件（例如基于量子点的有机发光二极管（QDLED））中的应用面临一些挑战。这个NSF SBIR团队打算生产电子级蓝色和绿色发射纳米晶体，并扩大电子级红色发射纳米晶体的合成，用于光电应用。在第一阶段的成功开发之后，第二阶段将扩大已开发的发射纳米晶体的合成，以进行大规模生产，并以可负担的价格进行商业化。在商业上，QD-LED以其压倒性的优势越来越受到工业界和学术界的关注。然而，高质量纳米晶的缺乏阻碍了研究人员和学者取得突破。提供电子级的红色、绿色和蓝色发光体，所提出的创新将在显示器工业中取得革命性的进步，并且对广泛的商业应用具有吸引力。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to develop affordable multicolor nanocrystals emitters for optoelectronic application. Semiconductor nanocrystals have been considered with potential applications in many fields. However, they have faced some challenges regarding their applications in optoelectronic devices such as the quantum dots based organic light-emitting diode (QDLED) due to the low brightness and low efficiency of the devices fabricated. This NSF SBIR team intends to produce electronic grade blue and green emitting nanocrystals and scale up the synthesis of electronic grade red emitting nanocrystals for optoelectronic applications. Upon the successful development of Phase I, Phase II will scale up the synthesis of developed emitting nanocrystals for massive production and make commercially available at an affordable price. Commercially, with its overwhelming advantages, QD-LED has received more and more attention from both industrial and academic areas. However the unavailability of high quality nanocrystals has prevented the researchers and scholars from making breakthrough. Providing the red, green and blue emitters at electronic grade, the proposed innovation will make revolutionary advances in the display industry and is attractive to a wide range of commercial applications.