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CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
卷 33, 期 9, 页码 3349-3358出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c00561
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- European Research Council Horizon 2020 ERC Grant [678004]
- Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO) through the Innovational Research Incentive (Vidi) Scheme [723.013.002]
- Innovational Research Incentives (Veni) Scheme [722.017.011]
- NWO Exact and Natural Sciences
- SURF Cooperative
Trap states are crucial in colloidal quantum dot technologies, with metal-based trap nature remaining elusive. Photoexcitation can lead to the formation of metal-based traps in charge-neutral CdSe QDs, which are transient and can quench photoluminescence. This highlights the importance of surface redox reactions for the optical properties of QDs and the potential for photoexcitation to create transient in-gap states through atomic rearrangements on the surface.
Trap states play a crucial role in the design of colloidal quantum dot (QD)-based technologies. The presence of these in-gap states can either significantly limit the efficiency of devices (e.g., in solar cells or LEDs) or play a pivotal role in the functioning of the technology (e.g., in catalysis). Understanding the atomistic nature of traps is therefore of the highest importance. Although the mechanism through which undercoordinated chalcogenide atoms can lead to trap states in II-VI QDs is generally well understood, the nature of metal-based traps remains more elusive. Previous research has shown that reduction of metal sites in negatively charged QDs can lead to in-gap states. Here, we use density functional theory to show that metal-based traps are also formed in charge-neutral but photoexcited CdSe QDs. It is found that Cd-Cd dimers and the concomitant trap states are transient in nature and appear and disappear on the picosecond time scale. Subsequent nonradiative recombination from the trap is shown to be much faster than radiative recombination, indicating that dimer-related trap states can quench the photoluminescence. These results are expected to be transferable to other II-VI materials and highlight the importance of surface redox reactions for the optical properties of QDs. Moreover, they show that photoexcitation can lead to atomic rearrangements on the surface and thus create transient in-gap states.
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