Infrared emitting and photoconducting colloidal silver chalcogenide nanocrystal quantum dots from a silylamide-promoted synthesis

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3758-3765

  Yarema, Maksym ^a   Pichler, Stefan ^a   Sytnyk, Mykhailo ^a,b   Seyrkammer, Robert ^a   Lechner, Rainer T ^c   Fritz Popovski, Gerhard ^c   Jarzab, Dorota ^d   Szendrei, Krisztina ^d   Resel, Roland ^e   Korovyanko, Oleksandra ^b   Loi, Maria Antonietta ^d   Paris, Oskar ^c   Hesser, Günter ^a   Heiss, Wolfgang ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b CHERNIVTSI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Infrared emission; Photoconductivity; Semiconductor colloidal nanocrystals; Silver chalcogenides; Silylamide promoted synthesis

Indexed keywords

BAND GAP ENERGY; CO-INJECTION; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL SILVER; DECAY TIME; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; HOT INJECTION; INFRARED EMISSIONS; LOW GROWTH TEMPERATURE; METAL CHALCOGENIDE; NANOCRYSTAL QUANTUM DOTS; NANOCRYSTAL SIZES; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; NUCLEATION RATE; SILVER CHALCOGENIDES; SILYLAMIDE-PROMOTED SYNTHESIS; TOXIC METALS; UNEXPLORED MATERIALS; WET CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS;

BLENDING; CADMIUM; CHALCOGENIDES; LEAD; LITHIUM; LUMINESCENCE; MERCURY (METAL); MONOLAYERS; NANOCRYSTALS; NUCLEATION; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOELECTRICITY; QUANTUM YIELD; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TOXIC MATERIALS;

SILVER;

AMIDE; CHALCOGEN; NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; CRYSTALLIZATION; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMIDES; CHALCOGENS; COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM DOTS; SILVER; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 80051517309     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2001118     Document Type: Article

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