Semiconductor nanocrystal structure/structuring

A. M. Smith, S. Nie, Semiconductor Nanocrystals Structure, Properties, and Band Gap Engineering. Accounts of Chemical Research 2010, 43,190-200. 

Smith AM, Nie S (2010) Semiconductor nanocrystals structure, properties, and band gap engineering. Acc Chem Res 43(2) 190-200... 

Sachleben J R ef a/1998 Solution-state NMR studies of the surface structure and dynamics of semiconductor nanocrystals J. Phys. Chem. B 102 10 117... 

PBE dendrons coordinate to the surface of II-VI semiconductor nanocrystals (e.g., CdSe [33] and CdSe/ZnS core/shell structure [34, 35]) to modulate the photoluminescence of the nanocrystals [32]. Trioctylphosphine oxide (TOPO)-capped II-VI semiconductor nanocrystals of several-nanometers diameter have been synthesized by a pyrolysis reaction of organometallics in TOPO [33-35]. The capping ligand (TOPO) can be replaced by stronger ligands such as thiol compounds [36], suggesting that dendrons bearing sulfur atom(s) at the focal point replace TOPO as well. 

A modified SILAR system has been used to grow CdSe in CdS/CdSe core shell semiconductor nanocrystals.12 A cadmium precursor solution, with CdO dissolved with oleic acid in octadecane, was injected onto the substrate, and the Se solution (Se powder dissolved with tributylphosphine in octadecane) was similarly injected. The temperature of the reaction solution was 185 °C. A CdS outer layer in the CdS/CdSe/CdS colloidal quantum wells was deposited by alternating injections of cadmium and sulfur both in octadecane solutions at 230-240 °C. These structures showed high PL quantum yields (20-40%), relatively narrow emission bands, and tunable emission colors from about 520 to 650 nm depending on the number of CdSe monolayers. 

Charge transport through an array of semiconductor nanocrystals is strongly affected by the electronic structure of nanocrystal surfaces. It is possible to control the type of conductivity and doping level of quantum dot crystals by adsorbing/desorbing molecular species at the nanocrystal surface. As an... 

Bard, A.J., Ding, Z. and Myung, N. (2005) Structure and Bonding Springer (Berlin, Germany), Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Silicate Nanoparticles, vol. 118, 1. 

Colloidal CdS particles 2-7 nm in diameter exhibit a blue shift in their absorption and luminescence characteristics due to quantum confinement effects [45,46]. It is known that particle size has a pronounced effect on semiconductor spectral properties when their size becomes comparable with that of an exciton. This so called quantum size effect occurs when R < as (R = particle radius, ub = Bohr radius see Chapter 4, coinciding with a gradual change in the energy bands of a semiconductor into a set of discrete electronic levels. The observation of a discrete excitonic transition in the absorption and luminescence spectra of such particles, so called Q-particles, requires samples of very narrow size distribution and well-defined crystal structure [47,48]. Semiconductor nanocrystals, or... 

Quantum size effects in semiconductor nanocrystals became an important field of research in the 1980s, when a number of groups, notably those of Brus at Bell Labs and Henglein at the Hahn Meitner Institute, published seminal papers on the effects of the size of semiconductor colloids on their optical properties and correlated crystal size with changes in electronic band structure. 

Electronic absorption spectroscopy has played a pivotal role in the development of methods for synthesizing pure semiconductor nanocrystals. Nanocrystal sizes, size distributions, growth kinetics, growth mechanisms, and electronic structures have all been studied in detail using electronic absorption spectroscopy. 

In the past decade, lanthanide ions doped in nanocrystalline semiconductors have been the subject of numerous investigations. Although quantum size effects are not expected on lanthanide energy level structures, influence of quantum confinement in semiconductor on the luminescence properties of the lanthanides is expected. One of the advantages of lanthanide-doped semiconductor nanocrystals is that the lanthanide luminescence can be efficiently sen-... 

Theoretical calculations of the electronic structure of metal and semiconductor nanocrystals throw light on the size-... 

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