Abstract
Copper (Cu) doped II-VI semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) manifest high luminescent dopant emission with excellent tunability. The Cu-doped II-VI QDs have been well studied via optical spectroscopy; nevertheless, the electrochemical study on doped QDs where the signals are traced to discover the absolute energies of dopant and band-edges of the host is rarely investigated. Herein, we have estimated these energies in 2 nm Cu-doped CdS QDs via cyclic voltammetry (CV). The CV graph of doped QDs revealed a specific intragap state where the redox potential is near to the Cu energy state. The observed results from the CV analysis were well correlated with optical spectra.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 13529-13533 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | New Journal of Chemistry |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 32 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 28 Aug 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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