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Séléniure de cadmium

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Colloidal Atomic Layer Deposition on Nanocrystals Using Ligand-Modified Precursors

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Ona Segura Lecina, Philippe Benjamin Green, Jari Leemans, Mark Adrian Newton, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Krishna Kumar

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a method to grow thin metal oxide layers on a variety of materials for applications spanning from electronics to catalysis. Extending ALD to colloidally stable nanocrystals promises to combine the benefits of thin metal oxi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Long live(d) CsPbBr3 superlattices: colloidal atomic layer deposition for structural stability

Raffaella Buonsanti, Philippe Benjamin Green, Alexander Nicolas Chen

Superlattice formation afforded by metal halide perovskite nanocrystals has been a phenomenon of interest due to the high structural order induced in these self-assemblies, an order that is influenced by the surface chemistry and particle morphology of the ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Momentum-Space Imaging of Ultra-Thin Electron Liquids in δ-Doped Silicon

Gabriel Aeppli

Two-dimensional dopant layers (δ-layers) in semiconductors provide the high-mobility electron liquids (2DELs) needed for nanoscale quantum-electronic devices. Key parameters such as carrier densities, effective masses, and confinement thicknesses for 2DELs ...

WILEY2023

Ripening of two-dimensional colloidal CdSe nanocrystals into zero-dimensional nanodots

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar, Xiaopeng Huang

Understanding the ripening of two-dimensional (2D) colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) is important for the controllable synthesis of NCs with desired morphology and properties. In this study, we systematically investigate the ripening behavior of the 2D CdSe NCs ...

CELL PRESS2021

Discrete metal nanoparticles with plasmonic chirality

Jijun He

From a geometrical perspective, a chiral object does not have mirror planes or inversion symmetry. It exhibits the same physical properties as its mirror image (enantiomer), except for the chiroptical activity, which is often the opposite. Recent advanceme ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Resonant Band-Edge Emissive States in Strongly Confined CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale, Aaron Tomas Terpstra

Strongly confined, fully inorganic cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals are of great promise for light-emitting devices in the blue spectral range owing to their high photoluminescence quantum yields. A combination of broadband fluorescence up-conver ...

2021

Luminescent, porous, metal-organic crystals: Design, synthesis, and applications

Fatmah Ebrahim

The work presented in this thesis is focused on the design and discovery of new luminescent, porous, crystalline materials for targeted applications. In particular, we focus on luminescent Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Organic Molecules of Intrinsic ...

EPFL2020

Nano-emitting Heterostructures Violate Optical Reciprocity and Enable Efficient Photoluminescence in Halide-Segregated Methylammonium-Free Wide Bandgap Perovskites

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Chien-Jen Yang, Christian Michael Wolff, Peter Joseph Fiala

This work investigates halide segregation in methylammonium-free wide bandgap perovskites by photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) and advanced electron microscopy techniques. Our study reveals how the formation of nano-emitting low-energy domains embedde ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Nanocrystals as Precursors in Solid-State Reactions for Size- and Shape-Controlled Polyelemental Nanomaterials

Raffaella Buonsanti, Emad Oveisi, Anna Loiudice, Laia Castilla Amorós, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, Valeria Mantella, Chethana Janardhana Gadiyar, Pranit Srinivas Iyengar

Solid-state reactions between micrometer-size powders are among the oldest, simplest, and still widely used methods for the fabrication of inorganic solids. These reactions are intrinsically slow because, although the precursorsare "well mixed" at the macr ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Insight into the Growth of Anisotropic CdSe Nanocrystals: Attachment of Intrinsically Different Building Blocks

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar, Xiaopeng Huang

An in-depth understanding of the growth mechanism of nanocrystals (NCs) is of great significance for shape control of colloidal semiconductor nanostructures. In this study, we elucidate the formation mechanism of anisotropic CdSe NCs by systematically inve ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Physics of optically driven nanojunctions

Philippe Andreas Rölli

Recent years have seen spectacular developments in the domain of nano-optics. Alongside the well-known techniques of super-resolution microscopy progress in nanofabrication has enabled important improvements in the fields of optical imaging and spectros ...

EPFL2020

Solution Processing and Self-Organization of PbS Quantum Dots Passivated with Formamidinium Lead Iodide (FAPbI(3))

Frank Nüesch

Solution-processed lead sulfide quantum dots (PbS QDs) are very attractive as NIR-active semiconductors for the fabrication of cost-efficient optoelectronic devices. To control the thin film carrier transport, as well as stability, surface passivation is o ...

2020

Shape and size control of colloidal CdSe nanocrystals in the presence of carboxylate and alkylamine ligands

Xiaopeng Huang

In this thesis, we focus on investigating the shape and size evolution of colloidal CdSe nanomaterials in the presence of carboxylate and alkylamine surface ligands. By elaborating the combination of carboxylates and alkylamines with different hydrocarbon ...

EPFL2019

Spontaneous Formation of CdSe Photoluminescent Nanotubes with Visible-Light Photocatalytic Performance

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar, Xiaopeng Huang

Two-dimensional (2D) colloidal CdSe nanocrystals (NCs) with precise atomic-scale thickness have attracted intensive attention in recent years due to their optical properties and quantum confinement effects originating from their particular band structure. ...

2019

Stable Ultraconcentrated and Ultradilute Colloids of CsPbX3 (X = Cl, Br) Nanocrystals Using Natural Lecithin as a Capping Ligand

Francesco Stellacci, Quy Ong Khac

Attaining thermodynamic stability of colloids in a broad range of concentrations has long been a major thrust in the field of colloidal ligand-capped semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs). This challenge is particularly pressing for the novel NCs of cesium lead ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Molecular tunability of surface-functionalized metal nanocrystals for selective electrochemical CO2 reduction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Mounir Driss Mensi, James Richard Pankhurst, Yannick Thomas Guntern

Organic ligands are used in homogeneous catalysis to tune the metal center reactivity; in contrast, clean surfaces are usually preferred in heterogeneous catalysis. Herein, we demonstrate the potential of a molecular chemistry approach to develop efficient ...

2019

Exciton Dynamics and Effects of Structural Order in Morphology-Controlled J-Aggregate Assemblies

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

Narrow-band photoluminescence (PL) together with high quantum efficiency from organic molecules is essential for high-color-purity emitters. Supramolecular assemblies like J-aggregates are promising materials due to their narrow PL signal with full-width a ...

2019

Resolving the Core and the Surface of CdSe Quantum Dots and Nanoplatelets Using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enhanced PASS-PIETA NMR Spectroscopy

David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Laura Piveteau

Understanding the surface of semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) prepared using colloidal methods is a long-standing goal of paramount importance for all their potential optoelectronic applications, which remains unsolved largely because of the lack of site-s ...

2018

Synergistic effect of carboxylic and amine ligands on the synthesis of CdSe nanocrystals

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar

We demonstrate the drastic improvement in absorbance and photoluminescence (UV-PL) of CdSe nanocrystals (NCs) upon adding both a carboxylic acid and an amine ligand to the cadmium acetate green chemistry source. We combined carboxylate complexes of lauric ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Covalent coupling via dehalogenation on Ni(111) supported boron nitride and graphene

Klaus Kern, Claudius Morchutt

Polymerization of 1,3,5-tris(4-bromophenyl) benzene via dehalogenation on graphene and hexagonal boron nitride is investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy experiments and density functional theory calculations. This work reveals how the interactions b ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015