Journal
ADVANCED PHOTONICS RESEARCH
Volume 2, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202100083
Keywords
light-emitting diodes; organic ligands; organolithium reagents; silicon nanocrystals; silicon quantum dots
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [245845833]
- Alberta Technical University of Munich School for Functional Hybrid Materials (ATUMS)
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The study shows that octyl-functionalized SiQDs achieve the optimal performance for LED with the highest irradiance and external quantum efficiency. The size and ligand length of SiQDs directly affect charge transport and emission spectrum characteristics.
Herein, silicon quantum dot light-emitting diodes (SiQD LEDs) are investigated to explore the interplay between their electroluminescence (EL) blue shift and the SiQD ligand length on the SiQD surface. The ligand is essential for LED fabrication to ensure colloidal stability, but it also hinders efficient charge transport inside the LED. Consequently, the SiQDs are functionalized via organolithium reagents with hexyl, octyl, and dodecyl to obtain a low-SiQD surface coverage and therefore improved charge transport. With increasing ligand length, the potential barrier between the SiQDs increases, which is ideal for charge carrier confinement, but a trade-off with the charge transport has to be found. A sweet spot for LED performance is found for octyl-functionalized SiQDs with the highest irradiance (734 mu Wcm(-2)) and external quantum efficiency (1.48%), compared with shorter hexyl- and longer dodecyl-capped SiQDs. The SiQDs exhibit a size distribution, whereas the bandgap energy of SiQDs is inversely proportional to the SiQD size. Therefore, large SiQDs with a short ligand are accessible at low voltages, whereas small SiQDs with long ligands require elevated voltages. This leads to a broadening and a blue shift of the EL spectrum and a ligand length-controlled size-selective SiQD activation.
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