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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2025

Atomic Layer Deposition Stabilizes Nanocrystals, Enabling Reliably High-Performance Quantum Dot LEDs.

Haoyue Wan, Pan Xia, Euidae Jung, Muhammad Imran, Ruiqi Zhang, Yiqing Chen, Julian A Steele, Sabah Gaznaghi, Yanjiang Liu, Ya-Kun Wang and 6 more

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Challenges of II-VI and III-V Blue Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Haoyue WanDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8137-9152
Pan XiaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8615-3590
Euidae JungDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4848-0931
Muhammad ImranDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7091-6514
Ruiqi ZhangDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Yiqing ChenDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4, Canada.
Julian A SteeleAustralian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7982-4413
Sabah GaznaghiAustralian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1195-4910
Yanjiang LiuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4, Canada.
Ya-Kun WangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8970-6856
Lianzhou WangAustralian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5947-306X
Yu-Ho WonSamsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6065-7800
Kwang-Hee KimSamsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
Vladimir BulovićDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0960-2580
Sjoerd HooglandDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3099-585X
Edward H SargentDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0396-6495

Funding

ARC Laureate Fellowship scheme FL190100139Australian Research Council DE230100173Australian Synchrotron M20652Samsung Electronics Co. MRA 211815
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) with stable high efficiencies are crucial for next-generation displays. However, uncontrollable aging, where efficiency initially increases during storage (positive aging) but is entirely lost upon extended aging (negative aging), hinders further device development. It is uncovered that it is chemical changes to nanocrystal (NC)-based electron transport layer (ETL) that give rise to positive aging, their drift in structure and morphology leading to transiently improved charge injection balance. Using grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering, it is found that ZnMgO NCs undergo size-focusing ripening during aging, improving size uniformity and creating a smoother energy landscape. Electron-only device measurements reveal a sevenfold reduction in trap states, indicating enhanced surface passivation of ZnMgO. These insights, combined with density functional theory calculations of ZnMgO surface binding, inspire an atomic layer deposition (ALD) strategy with Al₂O₃ to permanently suppress surface traps and inhibit NC growth, effectively eliminating aging-induced efficiency loss. This ALD-engineered ZnMgO ETL enables reproducible external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) of 17% across 30 batches of LEDs with a T

Indexed as

atomic layer depositionelectron transport layerlight‐emitting diodesquantum dotsZnMgO nanoparticles

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PMID39924783
PMCPMC11923525

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