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NANO LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 1964-1969Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl200211n
Keywords
cadmium selenide; zinc sulfide; core/shell quantum dot; zinc diethyldithiocarbamate; single-molecular precursor
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- Danish Natural Science Research Council [272-08-0491]
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A simple synthetic route to the preparation of a thin ZnS shell on CdSe quantum dot cores from the air-stable, single-molecular precursor zinc diethyldithiocarbamate, Zn(S(2)CNEt(2))(2), in the three-component solvent system octadec-1-ene/oleylamine/tri-n-octylphosphine (ODE/OLA/TOP) is presented. The one-pot synthesis proceeds through heating of the solution of CdSe cores and the amount of crystalline Zn(S(2)CNEt(2))(2) corresponding to a shell thickness of two monolayers of ZnS to 110-120 degrees C for 1-2 h. The role of the surfactants OLA and TOP and the significance of the temperature and the amount of Zn(S(2)CNEt(2))(2) have been investigated with optical absorption and luminescence spectroscopy. We show that the presence of both OLA and TOP is crucial for the low-temperature growth and that the amount of precursor corresponding to two monolayers of ZnS results in the highest quality of core/shell CdSe/ZnS quantum dots.
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