Solution synthesis of ultrathin single-crystalline SNS nanoribbons for photodetectors via phase transition and surface processing

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6197-6207

  Deng, Zhengtao ^a   Cao, Di ^a   He, Jin ^b   Lin, Su ^a   Lindsay, Stuart M ^a   Liu, Yan ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

colloidal nanoribbons; field effect transistors; ligand exchange; phase transition; photodetector; tin sulfide

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; GOOD STABILITY; LIGAND EXCHANGES; NANORIBBONS; NANOSCALE DEVICE; NARROW BAND GAP; OLEYLAMINE; ON/OFF RATIO; P TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR; PHOTOCURRENT GENERATIONS; PHOTOCURRENT RESPONSE; RED LIGHT; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SOLUTION PHASE SYNTHESIS; SOLUTION SYNTHESIS; SURFACE PROCESSING; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; TIN SULFIDE; ULTRA-THIN; ZINC BLENDE;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LIGANDS; NANOSPHERES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; TIN; ZINC;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 84864231048     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302504p     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Han, M. Y.; Ozyilmaz, B.; Zhang, Y. B.; Kim, P. Energy Band-Gap Engineering of Graphene Nanoribbons Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 98, 206805
2. Li, X. L.; Wang, X. R.; Zhang, L.; Lee, S. W.; Dai, H. J. Chemically Derived, Ultrasmooth Graphene Nanoribbon Semiconductors Science 2008, 319, 1229-1232 (Pubitemid 351323015)
3. Chen, Z. G.; Zou, J.; Liu, G.; Li, F.; Wang, Y.; Wang, L. Z.; Yuan, X. L.; Sekiguchi, T.; Cheng, H. M.; Lu, G. Q. Novel Boron Nitride Hollow Nanoribbons ACS Nano 2008, 2, 2183-2191
4. Zeng, H. B.; Zhi, C. Y.; Zhang, Z. H.; Wei, X. L.; Wang, X. B.; Guo, W. L.; Bando, Y.; Golberg, D. White Graphenes: Boron Nitride Nanoribbons via Boron Nitride Nanotube Unwrapping Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 5049-5055
5. Schwierz, F. Graphene Transistors Nat. Nanotechnol. 2010, 5, 487-496
6. Higginbotham, A. L.; Kosynkin, D. V.; Sinitskii, A.; Sun, Z. Z.; Tour, J. M. Lower-Defect Graphene Oxide Nanoribbons from Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes ACS Nano 2010, 4, 2059-2069
7. Kosynkin, D. V.; Lu, W.; Sinitskii, A.; Pera, G.; Sun, Z. Z.; Tour, J. M. Highly Conductive Graphene Nanoribbons by Longitudinal Splitting of Carbon Nanotubes Using Potassium Vapor ACS Nano 2011, 5, 968-974
8. Zhai, T.; Li, L.; Wang, X.; Fang, X. S.; Bando, Y.; Golberg, D. Recent Developments in One-Dimensional Inorganic Nanostructures for Photodetectors Adv. Funct. Mater. 2010, 20, 4233-4248
9. Kind, H.; Yan, H. Q.; Messer, B.; Law, M.; Yang, P. D. Nanowire Ultraviolet Photodetectors and Optical Switches Adv. Mater. 2002, 14, 158-160 (Pubitemid 34091540)
10. Soci, C.; Zhang, A.; Bao, X. Y.; Kim, H.; Lo, Y.; Wang, D. L. Nanowire Photodetectors J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 2010, 10, 1430-1449
11. Sinitskii, A.; Dimiev, A.; Corley, D. A.; Fursina, A. A.; Kosynkin, D. V.; Tour, J. M. Kinetics of Diazonium Functionalization of Chemically Converted Graphene Nanoribbons ACS Nano 2010, 4, 1949-1954
12. 2 Transistors Nat. Nanotechnol. 2011, 6, 147-150
13. Coleman, J. N.; Lotya, M.; O'Neill, A.; Bergin, S. D.; King, P. J.; Khan, U.; Young, K.; Gaucher, A.; De, S.; Smith, R. J. et al. Two-Dimensional Nanosheets Produced by Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials Science 2011, 331, 568-571
14. Xia, F. N.; Mueller, T.; Lin, Y. M.; Valdes-Garcia, A.; Avouris, P. Ultrafast Graphene Photodetector Nat. Nanotechnol. 2009, 4, 839-843
15. Habas, S. E.; Platt, H. A. S.; van Hest, M. F. A. M.; Ginley, D. S. Low-Cost Inorganic Solar Cells: From Ink to Printed Device Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 6571-6594
16. Antunez, P. D.; Buckley, J. J.; Brutchey, R. L. Tin and Germanium Monochalcogenide IV-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Use in Solar Cells Nanoscale 2011, 3, 2399-2411
17. Xu, Y.; Al-Salim, N.; Bumby, C. W.; Tilley, R. D. Synthesis of SnS Quantum Dots J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 15990-15991
18. Baumgardner, W. J.; Choi, J. J.; Lim, Y.-F.; Hanrath, T. SnSe Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Structure, Optical Properties, and Surface Chemistry J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 9519-9521
19. Zhu, H. L.; Yang, D. R.; Ji, Y. J.; Zhang, H.; Shen, X. F. Two-Dimensional SnS Nanosheets Fabricated by a Novel Hydrothermal Method J. Mater. Sci. 2005, 40, 591-595 (Pubitemid 40454201)
20. Koktysh, D. S.; McBride, J. R.; Rosenthal, S. J. Synthesis of SnS Nanocrystals by the Solvothermal Decomposition of a Single Source Precursor Nanoscale Res. Lett. 2007, 2, 144-148 (Pubitemid 46473914)
21. Wang, Z. J.; Qu, S. C.; Zeng, X. B.; Liu, J. P.; Zhang, C. S.; Tan, F. R.; Jin, L.; Wang, Z. G. The Application of SnS Nanoparticles to Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells J. Alloys Compd. 2009, 482, 203-207
22. Franzman, M. A.; Schlenker, C. W.; Thompson, M. E.; Brutchey, R. L. Solution-Phase Synthesis of SnSe Nanocrystals for Use in Solar Cells J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 4060-4061
23. Reddy, N. K.; Devika, M.; Ahsanulhaq, Q.; Gunasekhar, K. R. Growth of Orthorhombic SnS Nanobox Structures on Seeded Substrates Cryst. Growth Des. 2010, 10, 4769-4772
24. Noguchi, H.; Setiyadi, A.; Tanamura, H.; Nagatomo, T.; Omoto, O. Characterization of Vacuum Evaporated Tin Sulfide Film for Solar Cell Materials Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 1994, 35, 325-331
25. Peter, L. M. Towards Sustainable Photovoltaics: The Search for New Materials Philos. Trans. R. Soc., A 2011, 369, 1840-1856
26. Vaughn, D. D.; In, S. I.; Schaak, R. E. A Precursor-Limited Nanoparticle Coalescence Pathway for Tuning the Thickness of Laterally-Uniform Colloidal Nanosheets: The Case of SnSe ACS Nano 2011, 5, 8852-8860
27. Kang, J. G.; Park, J. G.; Kim, D. W. Superior Rate Capabilities of SnS Nanosheet Electrodes for Li Ion Batteries Electrochem. Commun. 2010, 12, 307-310
28. Ning, J. J.; Xiao, G. J.; Jiang, T.; Wang, L.; Dai, Q. Q.; Zou, B.; Liu, B. B.; Wei, Y. J.; Chen, G.; Zou, G. T. Shape and Size Controlled Synthesis and Properties of Colloidal IV-VI SnSe Nanocrystals CrystEngComm 2011, 13, 4161-4166
29. Zhang, Y.; Lu, J.; Shen, S.; Xu, H.; Wang, Q. Ultralarge Single Crystal SnS Rectangular Nanosheets Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 5226-5228
30. Greyson, E. C.; Barton, J. E.; Odom, T. W. Tetrahedral Zinc Blende Tin Sulfide Nanoand Microcrystals Small 2006, 2, 368-371 (Pubitemid 43219137)
31. Yue, G. H.; Lin, Y. D.; Wen, X.; Wang, L. S.; Chen, Y. Z.; Peng, D. L. Synthesis and Characterization of the SnS Nanowires via Chemical Vapor Deposition Appl. Phys. A 2012, 106, 87-91
32. Zhang, H. L.; Hu, C. G.; Wang, X.; Xi, Y.; Li, X. Y. Synthesis and Photosensitivity of SnS Nanobelts J. Alloys Compd. 2012, 513, 1-5
33. Deng, Z. T.; Han, D. R.; Liu, Y. Colloidal Synthesis of Metastable Zinc-Blende IV-VI SnS Nanocrystals with Tunable Sizes Nanoscale 2011, 3, 4346-4351
34. Panda, S. K.; Datta, A.; Dev, A.; Gorai, S.; Chaudhuri, S. Surfactant-Assisted Synthesis of SnS Nanowires Grown on Tin Foils Cryst. Growth Des. 2006, 6, 2177-2181 (Pubitemid 44450355)
35. Yue, G. H.; Wang, L. S.; Wang, X.; Chen, Y. Z.; Peng, D. L. Characterization and Optical Properties of the Single Crystalline SnS Nanowire Arrays Nanoscale Res. Lett. 2009, 4, 359-363
36. - as Surface Ligands J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 10612-10620
37. Deng, Z. T.; Yan, H.; Liu, Y. Controlled Colloidal Growth of Ultrathin Single-Crystal ZnS Nanowires with a Magic-Size Diameter Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 8695-8698
38. Deng, Z.; Mansuripur, M.; Muscat, A. Simple Colloidal Synthesis of Single-Crystal Sb-Se-S Nanotubes with Composition Dependent Band-Gap Energy in the Near-Infrared Nano Lett. 2009, 9, 2015-2020
39. Alivisatos, A. P. Semiconductor Clusters, Nanocrystals, and Quantum Dots Science 1996, 271, 933-937 (Pubitemid 126554899)
40. Polking, M. J.; Urban, J. J.; Milliron, D. J.; Zheng, H.; Chan, E.; Caldwell, M. A.; Raoux, S.; Kisielowski, C. F.; Ager, J. W., III; Ramesh, R. et al. Size-Dependent Polar Ordering in Colloidal GeTe Nanocrystals Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 1147-1152
41. 2S Nanorod Science 2011, 333, 206-209
42. Brus, L. Solid State Chemistry-Metastable Dense Semiconductor Phases Science 1997, 276, 373-374 (Pubitemid 27180690)
43. Deng, Z. T.; Bao, Z. X.; Cao, L.; Chen, D.; Tang, F. Q.; Wang, F. F.; Liu, C. X.; Zou, B. S.; Muscat, A. J. Spherical Hexagonal Tellurium Nanocrystals: Fabrication and Size-Dependent Structural Phase Transition at High Pressure Nanotechnology 2008, 19, 045707
44. Smith, A. M.; Nie, S. M. Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Structure, Properties, and Band Gap Engineering Acc. Chem. Res. 2010, 43, 190-200
45. Devika, M.; Reddy, N. K.; Patolsky, F.; Gunasekhar, K. R. Ohmic Contacts to SnS Films: Selection and Estimation of Thermal Stability J. Appl. Phys. 2008, 104, 124503
46. 2 Phototransistors ACS Nano 2012, 6, 74-80
47. Coropceanu, V.; Cornil, J.; da Silva Filho, D. A.; Olivier, Y.; Silbey, R.; Bredas, J.-L. Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors Chem. Rev. 2007, 107, 926-952 (Pubitemid 46736532)
48. Talapin, D. V.; Lee, J. S.; Kovalenko, M. V.; Shevchenko, E. V. Prospects of Colloidal Nanocrystals for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 389-458
49. Fafarman, A. T.; Koh, W. K.; Diroll, B. T.; Kim, D. K.; Ko, D. K.; Oh, S. J.; Ye, X. C.; Doan-Nguyen, V.; Crump, M. R.; Reifsnyder, D. C. et al. Thiocyanate-Capped Nanocrystal Colloids: Vibrational Reporter of Surface Chemistry and Solution-Based Route to Enhanced Coupling in Nanocrystal Solids J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 15753-15761
50. Koh, W. K.; Saudari, S. R.; Fafarman, A. T.; Kagan, C. R.; Murray, C. B. Thiocyanate-Capped PbS Nanocubes: Ambipolar Transport Enables Quantum Dot Based Circuits on a Flexible Substrate Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 4764-4767
51. Fardy, M.; Hochbaum, A. I.; Goldberger, J.; Zhang, M. M.; Yang, P. Synthesis and Thermoelectrical Characterization of Lead Chalcogenide Nanowires Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 3047-3051 (Pubitemid 47597913)
52. Jiang, Y.; Zhang, W. J.; Jie, J. S.; Meng, X. M.; Fan, X.; Lee, S. T. Photoresponse Properties of CdSe Single-Nanoribbon Photodetectors Adv. Funct. Mater. 2007, 17, 1795-1800 (Pubitemid 47172009)
53. Sugiyama, M.; Reddy, K. T. R.; Revathi, N.; Shimamoto, Y.; Murata, Y. Band Offset of SnS Solar Cell Structure Measured by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Thin Solid Films 2011, 519, 7429-7431
54. Vidal, J.; Lany, S.; d'Avezac, M.; Zunger, A.; Zakutayev, A.; Francis, J.; Tate, J. Band-Structure, Optical Properties, and Defect Physics of the Photovoltaic Semiconductor SnS Appl. Phys. Lett. 2012, 100, 032104
55. Johnson, J. B.; Jones, H.; Latham, B. S.; Parker, J. D.; Engelken, R. D.; Barber, C. Optimization of Photoconductivity in Vacuum-Evaporated Tin Sulfide Thin Films Semicond. Sci. Technol. 1999, 14, 501-507
56. Jie, J. S.; Zhang, W. J.; Jiang, Y.; Meng, X. M.; Li, Y. Q.; Lee, S. T. Photoconductive Characteristics of Single-Crystal CdS Nanoribbons Nano Lett. 2006, 6, 1887-1892 (Pubitemid 44555226)
57. Konstantatos, G.; Clifford, J.; Levina, L.; Sargent, E. H. Sensitive Solution-Processed Visible-Wavelength Photodetectors Nat. Photonics 2007, 1, 531-534