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    Colloidal Nanocrystals Embedded in Macrocrystals: Robustness, Photostability, and Color Purity
    (American Chemical Society, 2012-09-14) Otto, T.; Mueller, M.; Mundra, P.; Lesnyak, V.; Demir, Hilmi Volkan; Gaponik N.; Eychmuller, A.
    The incorporation of colloidal quantum dots (QDs) into ionic crystals of various salts (NaCl, KCl, KBr, etc.) is demonstrated. The resulting mixed crystals of various shapes and beautiful colors preserve the strong luminescence of the incorporated QDs. Moreover, the ionic salts appear to be very tight matrices, ensuring the protection of the QDs from the environment and as a result providing them with extraordinary high photo- and chemical stability. A prototype of a white light-emitting diode (WLED) with a color conversion layer consisting of this kind of mixed crystals is demonstrated. These materials may also find applications in nonlinear optics and as luminescence standards.
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    Implementation of high-quality warm-white light-emitting diodes by a model-experimental feedback approach using quantum dot-salt mixed crystals
    (American Chemical Society, 2015) Adam, M.; Erdem, T.; Stachowski, G.M.; Soran-Erdem Z.; Lox, J. F. L.; Bauer, C.; Poppe, J.; Demir, Hilmi Volkan; Gaponik N.; Eychmüller A.
    In this work, a model-experimental feedback approach is developed and applied to fabricate high-quality, warm-white light-emitting diodes based on quantum dots (QDs) as color-conversion materials. Owing to their unique chemical and physical properties, QDs offer huge potential for lighting applications. Nevertheless, both emission stability and processability of the QDs are limited upon usage from solution. Incorporating them into a solid ionic matrix overcomes both of these drawbacks, while preserving the initial optical properties. Here borax (Na2B4O7·10H2O) is used as a host matrix because of its lower solubility and thereby reduced ionic strength in water in comparison with NaCl. This guarantees the stability of high-quality CdSe/ZnS QDs in the aqueous phase during crystallization and results in a 3.4 times higher loading amount of QDs within the borax crystals compared to NaCl. All steps from the synthesis via mixed crystal preparation to the warm-white LED preparation are verified by applying the model-experimental feedback, in which experimental data and numerical results provide feedback to each other recursively. These measures are taken to ensure a high luminous efficacy of optical radiation (LER) and a high color rendering index (CRI) of the final device as well as a correlated color temperature (CCT) comparable to an incandescent bulb. By doing so, a warm-white LED with a LER of 341 lm/Wopt, a CCT of 2720 K and a CRI of 91.1 is produced. Finally, we show that the emission stability of the QDs within the borax crystals on LEDs driven at high currents is significantly improved. These findings indicate that the proposed warm-white light-emitting diodes based on QDs-in-borax hold great promise for quality lighting. © 2015 American Chemical Society.
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    Low-temperature photoluminescence spectra of TlInxGa1-xS2 layer mixed crystals
    (Pergamon Press, 1995) Allakhverdiev, K. R.; Gasanly, N. M.; Aydınlı, Atilla
    Low-temperature photoluminescence spectra of TlInS2, TlIn0.95Ga0.05S2 and TlIn0.8Ga0.2S2 layer crystals were studied in the temperature range 14-220 K. The temperature dependencies of bands 2.374 eV (A), 2.570 eV (E) and 2.576 eV (F) for TlInS2 are interpreted by supposing that the crystal undergoes structural phase transitions. Band A is considered to come from a donor-acceptor recombination channel. © 1995.