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Electrical transport and grain growth in solution-cast, chloride-terminated cadmium selenide nanocrystal thin films.

ABSTRACT: We report the evolution of electrical transport and grain size during the sintering of thin films spin-cast from soluble phosphine and amine-bound, chloride-terminated cadmium selenide nanocrystals. Sintering of the nanocrystals occurs in three distinct stages as the annealing temperature is increased: (1) reversible desorption of the organic ligands (?150 °C), (2) irreversible particle fusion (200-300 °C), and (3) ripening of the grains to >5 nm domains (>200 °C). Grain growth occurs at 200 °C in films with 8 atom % Cl(-), while films with 3 atom % Cl(-) resist growth until 300 °C. Fused nanocrystalline thin films (grain size = 4.5-5.5 nm) on thermally grown silicon dioxide gate dielectrics produce field-effect transistors with electron mobilities as high as 25 cm(2)/(Vs) and on/off ratios of 10(5) with less than 0.5 V hysteresis in threshold voltage without the addition of indium.

SUBMITTER: Norman ZM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4216209 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Electrical transport and grain growth in solution-cast, chloride-terminated cadmium selenide nanocrystal thin films.

Norman Zachariah M ZM Anderson Nicholas C NC Owen Jonathan S JS

ACS nano 20140630 7

We report the evolution of electrical transport and grain size during the sintering of thin films spin-cast from soluble phosphine and amine-bound, chloride-terminated cadmium selenide nanocrystals. Sintering of the nanocrystals occurs in three distinct stages as the annealing temperature is increased: (1) reversible desorption of the organic ligands (≤150 °C), (2) irreversible particle fusion (200-300 °C), and (3) ripening of the grains to >5 nm domains (>200 °C). Grain growth occurs at 200 °C ...[more]

PMID: 24960255

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