Examples of the ligands LR, LG, LB include hexadecylamine, oleylamine, octylamine, hexadecanthiol, dodecanthiol, trioctylphosphine, trioctylphosphine oxide, myristic acid, and oleic acid. The ligands LR, LG, LB also serve as dispersing agents that improve a dispersibility of the quantum dots QR, QG, QB in the dispersions.
As a feature of the core-shell type quantum dot QD, a wavelength of light emitted by the core-shell type quantum dot QD is dependent on a particle size of the core that is a light-emitting portion and is independent of a particle size of the shell. A wavelength of light emitted by the quantum dots QR, QG, QB can be controlled according to the particle size of the cores CR, CG, CB of the quantum dots QR, QG, QB.
The quantum dot QD tends to lengthen in light emission wavelength as the particle size of the core that is the light-emitting portion is increased, and tends to shorten in the light emission wavelength as the particle size of the core is decreased.
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