Two-Step "seed-Mediated" Synthetic Approach to Colloidal Indium Phosphide Quantum Dots with High-Purity Photo- and Electroluminescence

Parthiban Ramasamy, Keum Jin Ko, Jae Wook Kang, Jong Soo Lee

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Abstract

A study was conducted to present a two-step approach to synthesize highly monodisperse indium phosphide (InP) quantum dots (QDs) absorbing from 490 to 650 nm. Initially, InP QDs with an average size of 1.9 nm were synthesized and later used as 'seeds' to grow larger QDs by continuously injecting Zn(In)-P complexes as monomers source. The study used X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to study the oxidation of phosphorus in the synthesized InP 'seeds'. The absence of oxidized phosphorus signal showed the oxide free surface of the 'seed' QDs.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3643-3647
Number of pages5
JournalChemistry of Materials
Volume30
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Jun 2018

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Human Resource Training Project for Regional Innovation (No. 2015035858) through the Ministry of Education (MOE) and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy of Korea (No. 10052853). This work also partially supported by the Basic Science Research Program (NRF-2017R1A2B2001838) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning. We thank Omar Ramirez for size distribution measurements. We thank Taehoon Cheon (CCRF, DGIST) for TEM characterizations.

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