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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2025

Control Over Metal-Halide Reactivity Enables Uniform Growth of InSb Colloidal Quantum Dots for Enhanced SWIR Light Detection.

Muhammad Imran, Da Bin Kim, Pan Xia, Francisco Yarur Villanueva, Benjamin Rehl, Joao M Pina, Yanjiang Liu, Yangning Zhang, Oleksandr Voznyy, Eugenia Kumacheva and 2 more

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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12 authors.

Muhammad ImranDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7091-6514
Da Bin KimDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1162-7429
Pan XiaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada.
Francisco Yarur VillanuevaDepartment of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H6, Canada.
Benjamin RehlDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada.
Joao M PinaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada.
Yanjiang LiuDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E4, Canada.
Yangning ZhangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada.
Oleksandr VoznyyDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E4, Canada.
Eugenia KumachevaDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, 184 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E4, Canada.
Sjoerd HooglandDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada.
Edward H SargentDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0396-6495

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

InSb colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) hold promise in short-wave infrared sensing; however, their synthesis presents ongoing challenges, particularly in achieving precise size control - this is the result of poorly controlled reactivity among the precursors. Herein, the use of alkyl-phosphine and amine-based organic additives to control the reactivity of In and Sb precursors during the nucleation and growth of CQDs is developed. This interplay between organic additive and precursors enables the synthesis of InSb CQDs having narrowed size distributions; and bandgaps tunable across the 1.2-1.5 µm spectral range; all this leading to peak-to-valley ratios >1.4 in absorption spectra. The CQDs are surface-terminated with a mixture of oleylamine, halides, and oxide-like species, and this hinders ligand exchange reactions and subsequent integration into photodiodes. We therefore resurface the CQDs with alkanethiols, displacing the native ligands via an acid-base mechanism, an approach that removes oxide species. Using a layer-by-layer fabrication process, the ligands of the resurfaced InSb CQDs are exchanged with short organic and halide ligands and incorporated films into n-i-p photodiode structures. The resultant devices exhibit a detectivity of 10¹

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colloidal quantum dotsgroup III‐V semiconductorsindium antimonidephotodetectorshort wave‐infrared

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PMID39935073
PMCPMC11937987

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