Photoconductivity of CdTe Nanocrystal-Based Thin Films: Te2- Ligands Lead To Charge Carrier Diffusion Lengths Over 2 Micrometers

Ryan W. Crisp; Rebecca Callahan; Obadiah G. Reid; Dmitriy S. Dolzhnikov; Dmitri V. Talapin; Garry Rumbles; Joseph M. Luther; Nikos Kopidakis

doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02252

Photoconductivity of CdTe Nanocrystal-Based Thin Films: Te2- Ligands Lead To Charge Carrier Diffusion Lengths Over 2 Micrometers

Ryan W. Crisp, Rebecca Callahan, Obadiah G. Reid, Dmitriy S. Dolzhnikov, Dmitri V. Talapin, Garry Rumbles, Joseph M. Luther, Nikos Kopidakis

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Abstract

We report on photoconductivity of films of CdTe nanocrystals (NCs) using time-resolved microwave photoconductivity (TRMC). Spherical and tetrapodal CdTe NCs with tunable size-dependent properties are studied as a function of surface ligand (including inorganic molecular chalcogenide species) and annealing temperature. Relatively high carrier mobility is measured for films of sintered tetrapod NCs (4 cm²/(V s)). Our TRMC findings show that Te^2- capped CdTe NCs show a marked improvement in carrier mobility (11 cm²/(V s)), indicating that NC surface termination can be altered to play a crucial role in charge-carrier mobility even after the NC solids are sintered into bulk films.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	4815-4821
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume	6
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02252 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02252
State	Published - 3 Dec 2015

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Keywords

CdTe
nanocrystals
photoconductivity
solar-photochemistry

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Crisp, R. W., Callahan, R., Reid, O. G., Dolzhnikov, D. S., Talapin, D. V., Rumbles, G., Luther, J. M., & Kopidakis, N. (2015). Photoconductivity of CdTe Nanocrystal-Based Thin Films: Te2- Ligands Lead To Charge Carrier Diffusion Lengths Over 2 Micrometers. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6(23), 4815-4821. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02252, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02252

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