Suppressed charge recombination via defect engineering of confined semiconducting quantum dots for
Ce Hu1,2, Daojian Ye1,3, Jie Ren1,3
1Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Sensors, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang 330022, Jiangxi, China. xfluo@jxnu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Confined semiconducting CuSe quantum dots with abundant Se vacancies are synthesized by pulsed laser deposition with in situ vacuum annealing. With the presence of Se vacancies, the photogenerated charge recombination is suppressed by the self-introduced in-gap trapping states, thus enhancing the photoelectrocatalytic activity under solar illumination.


