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Recent Advances in Semiconductor Nanocluster Preparation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

A. P. Alivisatos
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
V. L. Colvin
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
A. N. Goldstein
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
M. A. Olshavsky
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
J. J. Shiang
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Abstract

Semiconductor nanocrystals have received an extraordinary degree of attention during thepast few years. The electronic, optical, photochemical, and thermodynamic properties of these materials are strongly size dependent, providing a rich area of research, with many potential applications1. It remains true that the range of phenomena that can be studied in nanocrystals is limited by the quality of available samples. In this paper we describe two advances in the preparation of nanocrystalline semiconductor samples. First is the preparation of CdS nanocrystals covalently bound to a metal surface; in this configuration it is possible to study the nanocrystals by photoemission. Second, we report the organometallic synthesis of GaAs nanocrystals.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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