Ligand-Engineered HgTe Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids for Infrared Photodetectors.
Nano Lett
; 22(8): 3465-3472, 2022 Apr 27.
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HgTe colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are promising absorber systems for infrared detection due to their widely tunable photoresponse in all infrared regions. Up to now, the best-performing HgTe CQD photodetectors have relied on using aggregated CQDs, limiting the device design, uniformity and performance. Herein, we report a ligand-engineered approach that produces well-separated HgTe CQDs. The present strategy first employs strong-binding alkyl thioalcohol ligands to enable the synthesis of well-dispersed HgTe cores, followed by a second growth process and a final postligand modification step enhancing their colloidal stability. We demonstrate highly monodisperse HgTe CQDs in a wide size range, from 4.2 to 15.0 nm with sharp excitonic absorption fully covering short- and midwave infrared regions, together with a record electron mobility of up to 18.4 cm2 V-1 s-1. The photodetectors show a room-temperature detectivity of 3.9 × 1011 jones at a 1.7 µm cutoff absorption edge.
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