Polyoxometalate as Control Agent for the Doping in HgSe Self-Doped Nanocrystals
Résumé
Intraband and plasmonic transitions have appeared over the last years as an interesting tool to achieve optical absorption in the mid infrared. Tuning the doping magnitude has become a major challenge not only to tune the optical spectrum but also properties such as the dark current or the time response. Here we investigate the case of self-doped HgSe colloidal quantum dots (CQDs). Tuning of the doping was so far relying on band bending induced by a dipole design at the nanoparticle surface. With such a surface gating approach, it is difficult to conciliate both the massive tuning of the Fermi level with the preservation of transport properties of the CQD arrays. Here we propose a strategy to graft functionalized polyoxometalates (POMs) at the CQD surface and obtain simultaneously a massive tuning of the carrier density (≈5 electrons per nanoparticle) and conduction properties. We bring a consistent demonstration of the HgSe CQD doping decrease by a charge transfer to the POM. This method is highly promising for large tuning of carrier density in degenerately doped semiconductor nanoparticles.
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