Silanization of plasma-grown silicon quantum dots for production of a tunable, stable, colloidal solution
| Autor: | Paul Stradins, Rebecca A. Shircliff, Sumit Agarwal, Brian J. Simonds, Reuben T. Collins, Benjamin G. Lee, Ingrid E. Anderson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Passivation
Silicon business.industry technology industry and agriculture chemistry.chemical_element Nanotechnology equipment and supplies complex mixtures Silane Nanomaterials law.invention chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry law Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition Photovoltaics Silanization Solar cell business |
| Zdroj: | SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.892836 |
| Popis: | Nanomaterials have the potential to revolutionize photovoltaics with the promise of new physics, novel architectures and low cost synthesis. Silicon quantum dots, relative to their II-VI counterparts, are understudied due to the difficulty of solution synthesis and chemical passivation. However, silicon is still an attractive solar cell material, providing an optimal band gap, low toxicity, and a very solid body of physical understanding of bulk silicon to draw from. We have synthesized silicon quantum dots with plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, and have developed a method for chemical passivation of these silicon quantum dots that can be used on particles created in a variety of ways. This versatile method utilizes oxidation via wet chemical etch and subsequent siloxane bond formation. The attachment of a silane to the SiOx shell leads to stability of the silicon core for over a month in air, and individual particles can be seen with TEM; thus a stable, colloidal suspension is formed. The future for this technique, including increasing quantum yield of the particles by changing the nature of the oxide, will be discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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