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Kapil Patidar1, Her-Yih Shieh1, Hsueh-Shih Chen1,2,3
1Department of Materials Science & Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan.
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PbS quantum dots (QDs) synthesized with oleic acid (OA) ligands suffer from poor charge transport in solid films, necessitating ligand exchange to shorter halide ligands for optoelectronic applications. This study investigates how ligand-exchange temperature governs OA-to-iodide substitution in PbS QDs. At 40 °C, the QD surface shows maximized halide passivation (I/Pb = 0.60) and minimized oxygen-related species (O/Pb = 0.23), suggesting reduced oxygen-associated defect formation and enabling n-type band alignment and reduced trap-mediated losses. PbS QD photodetectors fabricated from the 40 °C-treated QDs have 52% external quantum efficiency (EQE) at 940 nm (vs. 39% at 25 °C), with a responsivity of 0.394 A/W and an estimated detectivity of 2.1 × 1013 Jones. Temperature optimization of ligand-exchange provides a straightforward lever to improve device performance and reproducibility.
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