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Scientists reveal key to affordable, room-temperature quantum light

Synthesized quantum dots suspended in solvents under laser irradiation.
Synthesized quantum dots suspended in solvents under laser irradiation. Photo by Jonathan Kyncl.

Quantum light sources are fickle. They can flicker like stars in the night sky and can fade out like a dying flashlight. However, newly published research from the University of Oklahoma proves that adding a covering to one of these light sources, called a colloidal quantum dot, can cause them to shine without faltering, opening the door to new, affordable quantum possibilities. The findings are available in Nature Communications.

Quantum dots, or QDs, are so small that if you scaled up a single quantum dot to the size of a baseball, a baseball would be the size of the moon...

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