It is as the ability to influence inside the matter at nanometer level with standardized techniques that allow repeatability of processes and / or desired properties.
New Nanoengineering Approach Boosts Carrier Multiplication in Quantum Dots.
Jeff Pietryga, lead CASP chemist says, “Further enhancement in carrier multiplication should be possible by combining this new approach with other demonstrated means for increasing multicarrier yields, such as by using shape-control (as in nanorods) and/or materials in which cooling is already naturally slower, like PbTe.” Applied together, these strategies might provide a practical route to nanostructures exhibiting carrier multiplication performance approaching the limits imposed by energy conservation.