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SUBMITTER: Page RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4409856 | biostudies-other | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Page Robert C RC Espinobarro-Velazquez Daniel D Leontiadou Marina A MA Smith Charles C Lewis Edward A EA Haigh Sarah J SJ Li Chen C Radtke Hanna H Pengpad Atip A Bondino Federica F Magnano Elena E Pis Igor I Flavell Wendy R WR O'Brien Paul P Binks David J DJ
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20141027 13
Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are promising materials for novel light sources and solar energy conversion. However, trap states associated with the CQD surface can produce non-radiative charge recombination that significantly reduces device performance. Here a facile post-synthetic treatment of CdTe CQDs is demonstrated that uses chloride ions to achieve near-complete suppression of surface trapping, resulting in an increase of photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY) from ca. 5% to up to 97.2 ...[more]