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Tönu Pullerits. Portrait.

Tönu Pullerits

Professor

Tönu Pullerits. Portrait.

Balancing Electron Transfer and Surface Passivation in Gradient CdSe/ZnS Core-Shell Quantum Dots Attached to ZnO

Author

  • Mohamed Qenawy
  • Karel Zidek
  • Kaibo Zheng
  • Pavel Chabera
  • Maria Messing
  • Tönu Pullerits

Summary, in English

Core-shell (CS) quantum dots (QDs) are promising light absorbers for solar cell applications mainly because of their enhanced photostability compared with bare QDs. Moreover, the superb photostability can be combined with a low number of defects by using CSQDs with a gradient composition change from the core to the shell. Here, we study electron injection from the gradient CSQDs to ZnO nanoparticles. We observe the typical exponential injection rate dependence on the shell thickness (beta = 0.51 angstrom(-1)) and discuss it in light of previously published results on step-like CSQDs. Despite the rapid drop in injection rates with shell thickness, we find that there exists an optimum thickness of the shell layer at similar to 1 nm, which combines high injection efficiency (>90%) with a superior passivation of QDs.

Department/s

  • Chemical Physics
  • Solid State Physics
  • NanoLund: Centre for Nanoscience

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

1760-1765

Publication/Series

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volume

4

Issue

11

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

The American Chemical Society (ACS)

Topic

  • Condensed Matter Physics (including Material Physics, Nano Physics)
  • Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1948-7185