Chalcogenide quantum dots (CQDs) have emerged as a promising material platform for infrared (IR) optoelectronic applications, offering size-tunable bandgaps, solution processability, and integration flexibility. This symposium invites contributions highlighting recent advances and key challenges in leveraging CQDs for IR light harvesting, sensing and emission technologies.
The session will focus on innovative material designs, synthesis strategies, and device architectures that enhance CQD efficiency, stability, and spectral tunability. Contributions addressing challenges in scalability, environmental stability, and pathways for industrial integration are particularly encouraged.
Bringing together leading researchers in the field, this symposium aims to foster interdisciplinary discussions on the latest breakthroughs and future directions for IR active CQDs.
- Synthesis and characterization of Infrared active CQDs, (e.g., PbS, HgTe, Ag- chalcogenides, etc.)
- Infrared photodetectors and imaging devices based on CQDs
- Infrared CQD light emitting diodes (QLEDs)
- Infrared CQD lasers
- Application of infrared CQDs in photovoltaic devices
- Surface chemistry and ligand engineering of infrared active CQDs
- Photophysics and carrier dynamics in infrared CQDs
- Charge transport and doping strategies in infrared CQDs
- Strategies for improving the environmental and operational stability of infrared CQD devices


Dr. Baek received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2011 from KAIST, Korea, and Ph.D. in EEWS graduate school in 2017 from KAIST, Korea. Dr. Baek worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Toronto, ECS from 2017-2020. He started a new position as an Assistant Professor since March. 2020 from Korea University. Baek group focuses on semiconducting nanomaterials, colloidal quantum dot (CQD) including synthesis, surface modification, and device fabrication. Especially, they are studying on infrared CQD materials, which can be utilized in various fields, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, quantum communication, bio-imaging. Recently, they developed a non-toxic infrared CQD and thereby demonstrating the efficient photodetector, solar cells, LED and bio-sensor. The group has representative publications in Nat. Energy, Adv. Mater, Nat. Commun., Adv. Energy Mater., Chem. Eng. J, etc. in recent five years
Jennifer A. Hollingsworth is a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Fellow and Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Materials Physics, and The American Association for the Advancement of Science. She currently serves as Councilor for the Amercan Chemical Society Colloid & Surface Chemistry Division. She holds a BA in Chemistry from Grinnell College (Phi Beta Kappa) and a PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. She joined LANL as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in 1999, becoming a staff scientist in 2001. In 2013, she was awarded a LANL Fellows’ Prize for Research for her discovery and elaboration of non-blinking “giant” quantum dots (gQDs). In her role as staff scientist in the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT; http://www.lanl.gov/expertise/profiles/view/jennifer-hollingsworth), a US DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center and User Facility, she endeavors to advance fundamental knowledge of optically active nanomaterials, targeting the elucidation of synthesis-nanostructure-properties correlations toward the rational design of novel functional materials. Her gQD design has been extended to multiple QD and other nanostructure systems, and several are being explored for applications from ultra-stable molecular probes for advanced single-particle tracking to solid-state lighting and single-photon generation. A recent focus of her group is to advance scanning probe nanolithography for precision placement of single nanocrystals into metasurfaces and plasmonic antennas.
Jennifer A. Hollingsworth is a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Fellow and Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Materials Physics, and The American Association for the Advancement of Science. She currently serves as Councilor for the Amercan Chemical Society Colloid & Surface Chemistry Division. She holds a BA in Chemistry from Grinnell College (Phi Beta Kappa) and a PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. She joined LANL as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in 1999, becoming a staff scientist in 2001. In 2013, she was awarded a LANL Fellows’ Prize for Research for her discovery and elaboration of non-blinking “giant” quantum dots (gQDs). In her role as staff scientist in the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT; http://www.lanl.gov/expertise/profiles/view/jennifer-hollingsworth), a US DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center and User Facility, she endeavors to advance fundamental knowledge of optically active nanomaterials, targeting the elucidation of synthesis-nanostructure-properties correlations toward the rational design of novel functional materials. Her gQD design has been extended to multiple QD and other nanostructure systems, and several are being explored for applications from ultra-stable molecular probes for advanced single-particle tracking to solid-state lighting and single-photon generation. A recent focus of her group is to advance scanning probe nanolithography for precision placement of single nanocrystals into metasurfaces and plasmonic antennas.
Kwang Seob Jeong is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Korea University. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Korea University and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University in 2013. Following his doctoral studies, he conducted postdoctoral research as a JFI Fellow at the University of Chicago. He joined the Department of Chemistry at Korea University in 2015. Kwang Seob Jeong was recognized by the Royal Society of Chemistry as a Chemical Communications Emerging Investigator in 2018 and a Pioneering Investigator in 2024. In 2019, he was selected as a POSCO Science Fellow, and in 2021, he received the Korean Chemical Society(KCS)–Wiley Young Chemist Award. His research centers on the discovery and mechanistic understanding of novel electronic transitions in low-dimensional semiconductor nanomaterials, with particular emphasis on narrow-bandgap chalcogenides, infrared optoelectronic devices, and emerging quantum materials.
Jung-Yong Lee
Emmanuel Lhuillier has been undergraduate student at ESPCI in Paris and then followed a master in condensed matter physics from university Pierre and Marie Curie. He was then PhD student under the mentorship of Emmanuel Rosencher at Onera in the optics department, where he work on transport in quantum well heterostructure. As post doc he moved to the group of Philippe Guyot-Sionnest in the university of Chicago, and start working on infrared nanocrystal. Then he moved back to ESPCI for a second post in the group of Benoit Dubertret working on optoelectronic properties of colloidal nanoplatelets. Since 2015 he is a CNRS researcher at Institute for nanoscience of Paris at Sorbinne université. His research activities are focused on optoelectronic properties of confined Nanomaterial with a special interest on infrared system. He receive in 2017 an ERC starting grant to investigate infrared colloidal materials.
Zeke Liu
Zeke Liu is a professor at Soochow University. He obtained his PhD degree from Soochow University, worked as a joint PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Before he joined Soochow University in 2019, he worked as a joint postdoctoral scholar at Indiana University, Bloomington and Soochow University. His current research interest focuses on the design and synthesis of semiconductor quantum dots/nanocrystals, and their applications in optoelectronic devices.
Ayaskanta Sahu
Hongchao Yang
wanli ma