Display options
Share it on

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2015 Oct 07;7(39):21995-2000. doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b06890. Epub 2015 Sep 28.

Cleavable Ligands Enable Uniform Close Packing in Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids.

ACS applied materials & interfaces

Graham H Carey, Mingjian Yuan, Riccardo Comin, Oleksandr Voznyy, Edward H Sargent

Affiliations

  1. The Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto , 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada.

PMID: 26378717 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06890

Abstract

Uniform close packing in colloidal quantum dot solids is critical for high-optical density, high-mobility optoelectronic devices. A hybrid-ligand strategy is developed, combining the advantages of solid state and solution-phase ligand exchanges. This strategy uses a medium length thioamide ligand that is readily cleaved in a single chemical treatment, leading to quantum dot solids with uniformly packed domains 3 times larger than those observed in ligand-exchanged films.

Keywords: colloidal quantum dot; densification; ligand cleavage; thin films; thioamide

Publication Types