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NATURE MATERIALS
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 47-53Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT2572
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- Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
- US National Science Foundation
- Robert A. Welch Foundation
- Seoul Science Fellowship
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Doping of semiconductor nanocrystals by transition-metal ions has attracted tremendous attention owing to their nanoscale spintronic applications. Such doping is, however, difficult to achieve in low-dimensional strongly quantum confined nanostructures by conventional growth procedures. Here we demonstrate that the incorporation of manganese ions up to 10% into CdSe quantum nanoribbons can be readily achieved by a nucleation-controlled doping process. The cation-exchange reaction of (CdSe)(13) clusters with Mn2+ ions governs the Mn2+ incorporation during the nucleation stage. This highly efficient Mn2+ doping of the CdSe quantum nanoribbons results in giant exciton Zeeman splitting with an effective g-factor of similar to 600, the largest value seen so far in diluted magnetic semiconductor nanocrystals. Furthermore, the sign of the s-d exchange is inverted to negative owing to the exceptionally strong quantum confinement in our nanoribbons. The nucleation-controlled doping strategy demonstrated here thus opens the possibility of doping various strongly quantum confined nanocrystals for diverse applications.
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