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Bright and stable

The use of inorganic charge transport layers has enabled the fabrication of bright, environmentally stable LEDs that are based on electrically pumped colloidal solutions of quantum dots.

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Figure 1: All-inorganic LEDs with QD lumophores.

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Banin, U. Bright and stable. Nature Photon 2, 209–210 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.40

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