Colloidal quasi-one-dimensional dual semiconductor core/shell nanorod couple heterostructures with blue fluorescence
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Chen, Dechao; Wang, Aixiang; Li, Hongbo; Abad Galán, Laura; Su, Cong; Yin, Zongyou; Massi, Massimiliano; Suvorova, Alexandra; Saunders, Martin; Li, Ju; Sitt, Amit; Jia, Guohua; ... Show more Show less
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© 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Herein we report a nanorod couple heterostructure made of dual semiconductors, in which two parallelly aligned ZnSe nanorods are connected by the growth of ZnS on both end and side facets, producing hetero-ZnS (short arms)-ZnSe (long arms)/ZnS shell nanorod couples. As evidenced by electronic structure studies, both experimental and theoretical, such core/shell nanorod couple heterostructures can act as a platform to precisely tailor the quantum confinement of charge carriers between the constituting components within a single nano-object, generating blue fluorescence after the overgrowth of an alloyed ZnCdS layer on the heterostructures. We foresee the mechanistic insights gained and electronic structures revealed in this work would shed light on the rational design of more complex heterostructures with novel functionalities.
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2019Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and EngineeringJournal
Nanoscale
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)