ベル研究所のDaniel Chemla and David Millさんです:
日本人ではありませんでした。

So what exactly is a quantum dot? The term was coined by physicists Daniel Chemla and David Miller while working together at Bell Laboratories in the 1980s. It refers to a very small, roughly spherical, crystalline particle of semiconductor (silicon in the case of the cosmic dust). 'Small' means a few nanometres in diameter. Indeed, quantum dots are often referred to as nanocrystals (although they have at least 10 other aliases, including artificial atoms, quantum crystallites and nanodots), and they can also be thought of as colloidal particles. There are other types of quantum dot - pillar-like structures, for example - but this article will focus on the colloidal version.