Our group is focused on developing new nanostructures and new methods of synthesis. We synthesize broad range of semiconductor quantum dots with emission covering the range from ultraviolet through visible spectrum to near-infrared. We work on isotropic sphere-like dots as well as anisotropic structures with the shape of rods, platelets or tetrapods and complicated heterostructures of various morphologies, for example dot-in-rod, decorated nanorods or core-shell nanoplatelets. We utilize spectroscopic methods, such as absorbance (ABS), photoluminescence (PL) and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) to analyze optical properties of manufactured structures and use the results to understand the particle formation and optimize the synthesis conditions.
