Nano Letters, volume 20, issue 5, pages 3694-3702

Ligand-Assisted Reconstruction of Colloidal Quantum Dots Decreases Trap State Density

Bin Sun 1
Maral Vafaie 1
Larissa Levina 1
Mingyang Wei 1
Yitong Dong 1
Yajun Gao 2
Hao Ting Kung 3
Margherita Biondi 1
Andrew H. Proppe 1, 4
Bin Chen 1
Min-Jae Choi 1
Laxmi Kishore Sagar 1
Shana Kelley 4, 5
F. Pelayo García de Arquer 1
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King’s College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
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Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E4, Canada
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Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
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Department of Pharmaceutical Science, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2020-03-31
Journal: Nano Letters
Quartile SCImago
Q1
Quartile WOS
Q1
Impact factor10.8
ISSN15306984, 15306992
General Chemistry
Condensed Matter Physics
General Materials Science
Mechanical Engineering
Bioengineering
Abstract
Increasing the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cells has relied on improving the passivation of CQD surfaces, enhancing CQD coupling and charge transport, and advancing device architecture. The presence of hydroxyl groups on the nanoparticle surface, as well as dimers-fusion between CQDs-has been found to be the major source of trap states, detrimental to optoelectronic properties and device performance. Here, we introduce a CQD reconstruction step that decreases surface hydroxyl groups and dimers simultaneously. We explored the dynamic interaction of charge carriers between band-edge states and trap states in CQDs using time-resolved spectroscopy, showing that trap to ground-state recombination occurs mainly from surface defects in coupled CQD solids passivated using simple metal halides. Using CQD reconstruction, we demonstrate a 60% reduction in trap density and a 25% improvement in charge diffusion length. These translate into a PCE of 12.5% compared to 10.9% for control CQDs.

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Sun B. et al. Ligand-Assisted Reconstruction of Colloidal Quantum Dots Decreases Trap State Density // Nano Letters. 2020. Vol. 20. No. 5. pp. 3694-3702.
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Sun B., Vafaie M., Levina L., Wei M., Dong Y., Gao Y., Kung H. T., Biondi M., Proppe A. H., Chen B., Choi M., Sagar L. K., Voznyy O., Kelley S., Laquai F., Lu Z., Hoogland S., Pelayo García de Arquer F., Sargent E. H. Ligand-Assisted Reconstruction of Colloidal Quantum Dots Decreases Trap State Density // Nano Letters. 2020. Vol. 20. No. 5. pp. 3694-3702.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00638
UR - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00638
TI - Ligand-Assisted Reconstruction of Colloidal Quantum Dots Decreases Trap State Density
T2 - Nano Letters
AU - Levina, Larissa
AU - Kung, Hao Ting
AU - Biondi, Margherita
AU - Sun, Bin
AU - Proppe, Andrew H.
AU - Sagar, Laxmi Kishore
AU - Voznyy, Oleksandr
AU - Kelley, Shana
AU - Laquai, Frédéric
AU - Lu, Zheng-Hong
AU - Pelayo García de Arquer, F.
AU - Sargent, Edward H.
AU - Vafaie, Maral
AU - Wei, Mingyang
AU - Dong, Yitong
AU - Gao, Yajun
AU - Chen, Bin
AU - Choi, Min-Jae
AU - Hoogland, Sjoerd
PY - 2020
DA - 2020/03/31 00:00:00
PB - American Chemical Society (ACS)
SP - 3694-3702
IS - 5
VL - 20
SN - 1530-6984
SN - 1530-6992
ER -
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@article{2020_Sun,
author = {Larissa Levina and Hao Ting Kung and Margherita Biondi and Bin Sun and Andrew H. Proppe and Laxmi Kishore Sagar and Oleksandr Voznyy and Shana Kelley and Frédéric Laquai and Zheng-Hong Lu and F. Pelayo García de Arquer and Edward H. Sargent and Maral Vafaie and Mingyang Wei and Yitong Dong and Yajun Gao and Bin Chen and Min-Jae Choi and Sjoerd Hoogland},
title = {Ligand-Assisted Reconstruction of Colloidal Quantum Dots Decreases Trap State Density},
journal = {Nano Letters},
year = {2020},
volume = {20},
publisher = {American Chemical Society (ACS)},
month = {mar},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00638},
number = {5},
pages = {3694--3702},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00638}
}
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Sun, Bin, et al. “Ligand-Assisted Reconstruction of Colloidal Quantum Dots Decreases Trap State Density.” Nano Letters, vol. 20, no. 5, Mar. 2020, pp. 3694-3702. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00638.
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