Mercury-indium-sulfide nanocrystals: A new member of the family of ternary in based chalcogenides
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Abstract
A general synthesis approach of aqueous glutathione-capped ternary Ag-In-S, Cu-In-S, and Hg-In-S nanocrystals (NCs) is introduced, allowing the NC composition to be varied in a broad range. Ternary Hg-In-S (HIS) NCs are reported for the first time and found to have the same tetragonal chalcopyrite motif as Cu-In-S and Ag-In-S NCs, corroborated by phonon spectra, while X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic data indicate mercury to be present as Hg+ in the Hg-In-S NCs. Colloidal HIS and Hg-In-S/ZnS NCs showed little or no variations of the spectral width of the photoluminescence band upon NC size selection, temperature variation in a broad range of 10-350 K, deposition of a ZnS shell, or postsynthesis annealing. All these observations are similar to those reported earlier for Ag-In-S and Ag-In-S/ZnS NCs and allowed us to assume a general photoluminescence mechanism for all three ternary compounds, based on the model of radiative self-trapped exciton recombination.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | 144701 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
Volume | 151 |
Issue number | 14 |
Publication status | Published - 14 Oct 2019 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Externally published | Yes |
External IDs
Scopus | 85073253529 |
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ORCID | /0000-0002-8827-2881/work/142232979 |
Keywords
Keywords
- AG-IN-S, QUANTUM DOTS, SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS, CUINS2 NANOCRYSTALS, AQUEOUS SYNTHESIS, RAMAN-SCATTERING, LUMINESCENCE, VIBRATION, COMPOUND, ELECTRON