Doped colloidal InAs nanocrystals in the single ionized dopant limit

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dc.check.date2020-05-16
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dc.contributor.authorBiaye, Moussa
dc.contributor.authorAmit, Yorai
dc.contributor.authorGradkowski, Kamil
dc.contributor.authorTurek, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorGodey, Sylvie
dc.contributor.authorMakoudi, Younes
dc.contributor.authorDeresmes, Dominique
dc.contributor.authorTadjine, Athmane
dc.contributor.authorDelerue, Christophe
dc.contributor.authorBanin, Uri
dc.contributor.authorMélin, Thierry
dc.contributor.funderAgence Nationale de la Rechercheen
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-27T15:59:50Z
dc.date.available2019-08-27T15:59:50Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-16
dc.description.abstractWe investigate the electronic properties of individual n-type (Cu) doped and p-type (Ag) doped InAs colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) in the 2–8 nm size range from their charge transfers toward a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) substrate, using ultrahigh vacuum Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) with elementary charge sensitivity at 300 K. The NC active dopant concentration is measured as ND = 8 × 1020 cm–3 and NA > 5 × 1020 cm–3 for n- and p-type doping, respectively. The electrostatic equilibrium between the NC and the HOPG reference substrate is investigated and reveals an enhancement of the Fermi-level mismatch between the NCs and the HOPG substrate at reduced NC sizes, both for n- and p-type doping. It also shows, for n-type doped NCs with smallest sizes (∼2 nm), the existence of a full depletion regime, in which smallest NCs contain single ionized dopants. Results are compared with self-consistent tight-binding calculations of the electronic structure of InAs NCs, including hydrogenoid impurities and the presence of a host substrate, in the case of n-type doped NCs. The observed enhancement of the NC–HOPG Fermi-level mismatch can be understood by considering a size-dependent electrostatic contribution attributed to dipolar effects at the NC–ligand interface. The estimated surface dipole density equals a few Debye/nm2 and is increased at smallest NC sizes, which follows the enhancement of ligand densities at small NC sizes previously reported for metallic or semiconducting NCs. The results put forward the role played by the NC–ligand interface electrostatics for electronic applications.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAgence Nationale de la Recherche (contracts ANR-11-BS10-000, ANR-15-CE09-0004-04, and ANR-13-BS09-0020)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationBiaye, M., Amit, Y., Gradkowski, K., Turek, N., Godey, S., Makoudi, Y., Deresmes, D., Tadjine, A., Delerue, C., Banin, U. and Mélin, T. (2019) 'Doped Colloidal InAs Nanocrystals in the Single Ionized Dopant Limit', The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123 (23), pp. 14803-14812. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02576en
dc.identifier.doi10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02576en
dc.identifier.eissn1932-7455
dc.identifier.endpage14812en
dc.identifier.issn1932-7447
dc.identifier.issued23en
dc.identifier.journaltitleThe Journal of Physical Chemistry Cen
dc.identifier.startpage14803en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8402
dc.identifier.volume123en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAmerican Chemical Society, ACSen
dc.relation.urihttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02576
dc.rights© 2019 American Chemical Society. This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02576en
dc.subjectCharge transferen
dc.subjectColloidsen
dc.subjectElectronic propertiesen
dc.subjectElectronic structureen
dc.subjectElectrostaticsen
dc.subjectFermi levelen
dc.subjectIII-V semiconductorsen
dc.subjectIndium arsenideen
dc.subjectIonizationen
dc.subjectLigandsen
dc.subjectNanocrystalsen
dc.subjectSubstratesen
dc.titleDoped colloidal InAs nanocrystals in the single ionized dopant limiten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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