Thiocyanate-Capped Nanocrystal Colloids: Vibrational Reporter of Surface Chemistry and Solution-Based Route to Enhanced Coupling in Nanocrystal Solids

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作者
Fafarman, Aaron T. [1 ]
Koh, Weon-kyu [2 ]
Diroll, Benjamin T. [2 ]
Kim, David K. [3 ]
Ko, Dong-Kyun [3 ]
Oh, Soong Ju [3 ]
Ye, Xingchen [2 ]
Doan-Nguyen, Vicky [3 ]
Crump, Michael R. [3 ]
Reifsnyder, Danielle C. [2 ]
Murray, Christopher B. [2 ,3 ]
Kagan, Cherie R. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Penn, Dept Elect & Syst Engn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[2] Univ Penn, Dept Chem, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[3] Univ Penn, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
QUANTUM-DOTS; STRUCTURAL-CHARACTERIZATION; CDSE NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; SUPERLATTICES; LIGANDS; CDTE; THERMOPOWER; MONOLAYERS; COMPLEXES;
D O I
10.1021/ja206303g
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
Ammonium thiocyanate (NH4SCN) is introduced to exchange the long, insulating ligands used in colloidal nanocrystal (NC) synthesis. The short, air-stable, environmentally benign thiocyanate ligand electrostatically stabilizes a variety of semiconductor and metallic NCs in polar solvents, allowing solution-based deposition of NCs into thin-film NC solids. NH4SCN is also effective in replacing ligands on NCs after their assembly into the solid state. The spectroscopic properties of this ligand provide unprecedented insight into the chemical and electronic nature of the surface of the NCs. Spectra indicate that the thiocyanate binds to metal sites on the NC surface and is sensitive to atom type and NC surface charge. The short, thiocyanate ligand gives rise to significantly enhanced electronic coupling between NCs as evidenced by large bathochromic shifts in the absorption spectra of CdSe and CdTe NC thin films and by conductivities as high as (2 +/- 0.7) x 10(3) Omega(-1) cm(-1) for Au NC thin films deposited from solution. NH4SCN treatment of PbTe NC films increases the conductivity by 10(13), allowing the first Hall measurements of nonsintered NC solids, with Hall effect mobilities of 2.8 +/- 0.7 cm(2)/(V.s). Thiocyanate-capped CdSe NC thin films form photodetectors exhibiting sensitive photoconductivity of 10(-5) Omega(-1) cm(-1) under 30 mW/cm(2) of 488 nm illumination with I-photo/I-dark > 10(3) and form n-channel thin-film transistors with electron mobilities of 1.5 +/- 0.7 cm(2)/(V.s), a current modulation of >10(6), and a subthreshold swing of 0.73 V/decade.
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页码:15753 / 15761
页数:9
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