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Published on: August 4, 2017
Cu-In-Te and Ag-In-Te colloidal nanocrystals with tunable composition and size
Olesya Yarema1, Maksym Yarema, Weyde M M Lin
1Laboratory for Nanoelectronics, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland. vwood@ethz.ch.
Abstract:
We synthesize stable colloids of Cu-In-Te and Ag-In-Te nanocrystals using an amide-promoted technique, which enables independent size and composition control, and report the dependence of structural and optical properties on composition and size. Comparison to the synthesis of other ternary I-III-VI nanocrystals gives insight into the reaction mechanism and the generalizability of the amide-promote approach.
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