The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded - quantum dots

[gary]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-04/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-recipients-announced/102935908

Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: From Discovery to Modern Development
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/brus/group/pdf-files/ACSNanoreview2021.pdf

[gary]

The Nobel Committee for Chemistry has supplied a paper entitled,
"Scientific Background to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023".

It includes the following paragraphs :-



It's of personal significance to me because the paper references my previous boss, Ray, three times.

A brilliant Australian chemist and physicist born in Perth, in 1973 he was the first person to
experimentally observe the quantum well phenomena and he co-invented the quantum well laser.

Used in CD, DVD and Blu-ray players as well as barcode scanners,
quantum well lasers are also important because they are the basic active
element (the laser light source) of the optic fibers that power the Internet.

They made reading of this sentence possible.

Not one to talk about his many achievements, he was the smartest person I've ever known. He passed away in 2020.

Paper here :-
https://www.kva.se/app/uploads/2023/10/scibackkeen23cb871hdol5.pdf

[wavelandscott]

Pretty cool stuff!