ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Quantum dot ligand shell optimisation via solution processing and ligand exchange - part 1: ex situ

Abstract: Our research aims to develop plastic films that change the colour of the light that passes through them, not by absorbing certain wavelengths of light, as a simple colour filter would, but by converting light of one wavelength to another without losing any energy. Such a film, applied to a silicon solar cell, could make it up to 30% more efficient. To do this we need to make semiconductor nanocrystals ("quantum dots"), coat them with a very thin layer of an organic semiconductor so the two materials are in molecular contact. This proposal is about how we prepare the surfaces of the quantum dots to make sure the desired molecules will definitely stick there. What we are designing will only work if the thin layer of organic semiconductor is intimately stuck on to the quantum dot, so that the light can transfer seamlessly from one to the other.

Principal Investigator: Dr Daniel Toolan
Experimenter: Professor Richard Friend
Experimenter: Dr Mike Weir
Experimenter: Professor Richard Jones
Experimenter: Professor Neil Greenham
Experimenter: Ms Cate O'Brien
Experimenter: Dr Akshay Rao
Local Contact: Dr Steve King
Experimenter: Professor Tony Ryan
Local Contact: Dr Adam Washington

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910086

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1910086

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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