Primary Recipient

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Amount

$750,000.00

Award Date

4/07/2010

Administering Agency

Energy, Department of / Office of Science

CDFA Number

81.049

CDFA Program Title

Office of Science Financial Assistance Program

Description

Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are crystalline clusters of compound or single-element semiconductor atoms with diameters of ~1.5 ? 15 nm. Quantum dots have a variety of properties make them suitable as active materials within hybrid organic-inorganic solar