Electron-Conducting PbS Nanocrystal Superlattices with Long-Range Order Enabled by Terthiophene Molecular Linkers
Alexander André1, Michelle Weber1, Kai M Wurst1
1Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry , University of Tübingen , Auf der Morgenstelle 18 , 72076 Tübingen , Germany.
Abstract:
PbS nanocrystals are surface-functionalized with the organic semiconductor 5,5″-dithiol-[2,2':5,2″-terthiophene] and assembled to afford hybrid nanostructured thin films with a large structural coherence and an electron mobility of 0.2 cm2/(V s). Electrochemistry, optical spectroscopy, and quantum mechanical calculations are applied to elucidate the electronic structure at the inorganic/organic interface, and it is established that electron injection into the molecule alters its (electronic) structure, which greatly facilitates coupling of the neighboring PbS 1Se states. This is verified by field-effect and electrochemically gated transport measurements, and evidence is provided that carrier transport occurs predominantly via the 1Se states. The presented material allows studying structure-transport correlations and exploring transport anisotropies in semiconductor nanocrystal superlattices.
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