Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 7727-7735Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b19626
Keywords
heterostructures; nanoparticles; metal; semiconductor; interface; Raman; photoluminescence; charge transfer
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- DST, India
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Metal-semiconductor hybrid nanoheterostructures have the possibility to exhibit new synergic properties other than the combination of properties from discrete components due to the interaction of metal and semiconductor components at the interfaces. Here, we have synthesized Ag-Cu2O eyeball-shaped quantum nanoheterostructures with diameter ranging between 8 and 12 nm using a single-step low-cost solvothermal process. It is observed that the presence of a minimum 3% of Ag is required for the formation of Ag-Cu2O quantum nanoheterostructures. The formation of nanoheterostructures has introduced new synergic properties like intense blue luminescence and surface-enhanced Raman scattering due to the interactions between Ag and Cu2O atoms at the interfaces. The significant presence of charge transfer through the interfaces is identified from the peak shift of Raman modes. The increase in the electron density at the metal surface due to the charge transfer and the recombination of these electrons with sp- or d-band holes of Ag could be the effective mechanism of the observed blue luminescence. The blue luminescence of Ag-Cu2O quantum nanoheterostructures together with its low band gap value (approximate to 2.3 eV) is believed to have important applications in optoelectronic devices.
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