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Nature’s Play in Dual Doping of Quantum Dots
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Ms. Mahima Makkar*
Email: makkar.mahima@gmail.com
The law of nature is that no two different species can co-exist in a confined environment if you just bring them together one day. The most foreseeable outcome would be that one species will try not to put up in that confined space with the other; either it will walk out, or it will not allow the other species to set foot in. Considering this instability, we perceive that it is onerous or rather not practicable to keep different species together in a small space or a confined environment.
Still and all, the question remains, is it possible to defy the law of nature?
We all would have heard or read the famous story of “The Jungle Book” in our juvenescence. It’s a story of Mowgli (a human) raised in a jungle with other animals. Isn’t it
strange? However, even this fictitious story highlights an important point that it was baby Mowgli that was raised by a family of wolves. I recommendreaderstokeeptheseparticulars at a focal point while reading the story of our research.
Therefore, this is what we are addressing in Quantum Dot Lab at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore. We are trying to position two different species (elements/dopants) with dissimilar properties in a very small system (quantum dots) of around 10 nanometers (nm). Quantum dots are tiny semiconductor particles with all three dimensions in less than 10-nm size regime, where a nanometer is 1 over 1000 times of the thickness of a human hair.
In continuance, over here, we are trying
* Ms. Mahima Makkar, PhD Scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, is pursuing her research on “Doped Quantum Dots, XAFS, Transient Absorption, Magnetic Nanomaterials, Magneto- Optics”. Her popular science story entitled “Nature’s Play in Dual Doping of Quantum Dots” has been selected for AWSAR Award.