Review Article
  • Recent Progress of ZnSe(Te) Quantum Dot and Their Application in Blue Light Emitting Diodes

  • Wooseok Jin*, Jaehan Jung*†

  • *Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology

  • ZnSe(Te) 양자점 기반 청색 발광 다이오드의 최근 연구 동향

  • 진우석* · 정재한*†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Correspondence to

  • Jaehan Jung

  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology

  • E-mail: jaehan@seoultech.ac.kr