Size effects in the excited electronic states of small colloidal CdS crystallites
This paper reports experimental studies of the development of bulk optical properties as a function of crystallite size for the inorganic direct gap semiconductor CdS. Small crystallites are synthesized via colloidal chemical techniques, and their optical properties are studied in situ at extreme dilution. The crystallites are characterized via high resolution transmission electron microscopy. Direct images show (111) lattice planes, and establish the crystallite structures as close to those of excised fragments of bulk CdS (zinc-blende cubic). Large crystallites (> 100 Å average diameter) show an optical absorption, in colloidal solution, close to that of bulk crystalline material. However, small crystallites of 30 Å average diameter show a large blue shift (∼0.8 eV) in absorption edge (effective band gap), and an intensification of edge absorption relative to absorption at higher energy regions. These observations can be understood as quantum size effects resulting from confinement of an electron and hole in a small volume. 40 Å average size crystallites show a smaller shift (∼0.25 eV), and corresponding changes in their fluorescence, and resonance Raman excitation, spectra.
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