One-Pot Noninjection Synthesis of Cu-Doped ZnxCd1-xS Nanocrystals with Emission Color Tunable over Entire Visible Spectrum

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• 作者：Wenjin Zhang ; Xinggui Zhou ; Xinhua Zhong
• 刊名：Inorganic Chemistry
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：March 19, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：51
• 期：6
• 页码：3579-3587
• 全文大小：447K
• 年卷期：v.51,no.6(March 19, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-510X

文摘

Unlike Mn doped quantum dots (d-dots), the emission color of Cu dopant in Cu d-dots is dependent on the nature, size, and composition of host nanocrystals (NCs). The tunable Cu dopant emission has been achieved via tuning the particle size of host NCs in previous reports. In this paper, for the first time we doped Cu impurity in Zn_xCd_1-xS alloyed NCs and tuned the dopant emission in the whole visible spectrum via variation of the stoichiometric ratio of Zn/Cd precursors in the host Zn_xCd_1-xS alloyed NCs. A facile noninjection and low cost approach for the synthesis of Cu:Zn_xCd_1-xS d-dots was reported. The optical properties and structure of the obtained Cu:Zn_xCd_1-xS d-dots have been characterized by UV鈥搗is spectroscopy, photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The influences of various experimental variables, including Zn/Cd ratio, reaction temperature, and Cu dopant concentration, on the optical properties of Cu dopant emission have been systematically investigated. The as-prepared Cu:Zn_xCd_1-xS d-dots did show PL emission but with quite low quantum yield (QY) (typically below 6%). With the deposition of ZnS shell around the Cu:Zn_xCd_1-xS core NCs, the PL QY increased substantially with a maximum value of 65%. More importantly, the high PL QY can be preserved when the initial oil-soluble d-dots were transferred into aqueous media via ligand replacement by mercaptoundeconic acid. In addition, these d-dots have thermal stability up to 250 掳C.