A size-selected series of water-soluble luminescent Ag–In–S (AIS) and core/shell AIS/ZnS QDs were produced by a precipitation technique. Up to 10–11 fractions of size-selected AIS (AIS/ZnS) QDs emitting in a broad color range from deep-red to bluish-green were isolated with the photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield reaching 47% for intermediate fractions. The size of the isolated AIS (AIS/ZnS) QDs varied from ~2 nm to ~3.5 nm at a roughly constant chemical compo- sition of the particles throughout the fractions as shown by the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
The decrease of the mean AIS QD size in consecutive fractions was accompanied by an increase of the structural QD imperfection/disorder as deduced from a notable Urbach absorption “tail” below the fundamental absorption edge. The Urbach increased from 90–100 meV for the largest QDs up to 350 meV for the smallest QDs, indicating a broadening of the distribution of sub-bandgap states. Both the Urbach energy and the PL bandwidth of the size-selected AIS QDs increased with QD size reduction from 3–4 nm to ~2 nm and a distinct correlation was observed between these parameters.
A study of size-selected AIS and AIS/ZnS QDs by UV photoelectron spectroscopy on Au and FTO substrates revealed their valence band level EVB at ~6.6 eV (on Au) and ~7 eV (on FTO) and pinned to the Fermi level of conductive substrates resulting in a masking of any possible size- dependence of the valence band edge position.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:29361 |
| Date | 11 August 2017 |
| Creators | Raevskaya, Alexandra, Lesnyak, Vladimir, Haubold, Danny, Dzhagan, Volodymyr, Stroyuk, Oleksandr, Gaponik, Nikolai, Zahn, Dietrich R.T., Eychmüller, Alexander |
| Publisher | American Chemical Society |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Source | The journal of physical chemistry C, Nanomaterials and interfaces (2017), 121(16). S. 9032-9042. ISSN 1932-7455. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b00849. |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b00849 |
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