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Synthesis of p hotoluminescent c olloidal CdS n anocrystals via a non-injection method

YAWEI ZHOU1, ZHENHUA FANG1, WEI ZHAO1, XIAOPENG ZHAO1,*

Affiliation

  1. Smart Material Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710 129, China

Abstract

This paper reports a novel method of synthesising CdS nanocrystals (NCs), which 1 octadecene as non coordinating solvent, cadmium acetate and sulfur as Cd and S sources, and myristic acid as surfactant were used respectively. X-ray powder diffraction, dynamic light scattering and scanning electron microscopy revealed that the as-prepared CdS NCs are highly monodispersed and possess a zinc blende crystal structure. The nucleation and growth stages of the NCs could be automatically separated in a homogeneous system with nucleation initiators , tetraethylthiuram disulfide and 2,2 - dithiobisbenzothiazole. To a certain extent, the size of CdS NCs c ould be controlled by altering the quantity of nucleation initiators and the reaction time. The photoluminescence spectra of the CdS NCs with narrow photoluminescence emission peaks are depend ent on the size of the particles.

Keywords

CdS, Nanoparticles, Photoluminescence.

Citation

YAWEI ZHOU, ZHENHUA FANG, WEI ZHAO, XIAOPENG ZHAO, Synthesis of p hotoluminescent c olloidal CdS n anocrystals via a non-injection method, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 6, 9-10, September-October 2012, pp.818-821 (2012).

Submitted at: May 5, 2012

Accepted at: Sept. 20, 2012