Ligand-assisted structure tailoring of highly luminescent Cu-In-Zn-S/ZnS//ZnS quantum dots for bright and stable light-emitting diodes.

ABSTRACT: Harnessing environment-friendly and low-cost multinary Cu-In-Zn-S quantum dots (QDs) as emitters for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) has attracted great attention for display and lighting application. However, suboptimal QD structure is a huge obstacle, which results in serious non-radiative recombination and efficiency roll-off. Herein, we synthesized structure-tailored Cu-In-Zn-S/ZnS//ZnS QDs by improving the reactivity of shell growth by 2-ethylhexanoic acid (EHA) ligands. The EHA-assisted shell growth can boost an extended alloyed layer at the core-shell interface and a smoothed confinement barrier, which effectively passivate the interface defects and suppress Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) process. These synthesized QDs display a bright photoluminescence emission (quantum yiel

SUBMITTER: Zang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9792774 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature