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A Novel Spray Based Method for the Production of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Lilac Amirav  and
Efrat Lifshitz
Lilac Amirav
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Solid State Institute and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel
Efrat Lifshitz
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Solid State Institute and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Abstract

We present a novel spray based method for the formation and production of semiconductor nanocrystals that provides an attractive alternative to the commonly used epitaxial and colloidal procedures. According to this spray-based method, mainly thermospray, solutions of semiconductor salts are first sprayed into monodispersed droplets, which subsequently become solid nanoparticles by solvent evaporation. A semiconductor nanoparticle is produced from a single spray droplet upon the full vaporization of the solvent. The average diameter and size distribution of the final nanocrystals are controlled and determined by the solute concentration of the sprayed solution and by the droplet size, hence by the spray production parameters. The spray-produced nanocrystals are collected on any selected solid support. Representative results, shown in this paper, reveal the formation of CdS nanocrystals in the size range of 3 to 6 nanometer and with a size distribution of as low as five percents. A further structural analysis of these nanocrystals showed that they were formed in the zinc blend phase with high degree of crystallinity.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 879: Symposium Z – Chemistry of Nanomaterial Synthesis and Processing , 2005 , Z3.7
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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