Advanced Materials
Advanced Materials
5 years ago

Indium Phosphide-Based Quantum Dots with Shell-Enhanced Absorption for Luminescent Down-Conversion

Indium Phosphide-Based Quantum Dots with Shell-Enhanced Absorption for Luminescent Down-Conversion
Dorian Dupont, Philippe F. Smet, Mickael D. Tessier, Zeger Hens
It is shown that admixing small amounts of cadmium into the shell of InP/ZnSe core/shell quantum dots results in an increased absorption of blue light and a limited redshift of the band-edge emission. These effects reflect the reduced bandgap of (Zn,Cd)Se alloys and their smaller conduction-band offset with InP. Nevertheless, adjusting the InP core size enables InP/ZnSe and InP/(Zn,Cd)Se quantum dots with identical emission characteristics to be made. Processing both materials into remote phosphor disks, it is demonstrated that the shell-enhanced absorbance of InP/(Zn,Cd)Se has the double benefit of suppressing self-absorption and reducing the amount of quantum dots by weight needed to attain a given blue-to-red color conversion. InP-based quantum dots (QDs) with shell-enhanced absorption for more efficient luminescent down-conversion are proposed. Synthetic methods to coat InP QDs with a ZnSe shell containing small amounts of Cd are developed. This allows the QD absorption at 450 nm, the typical pump wavelength for optical down-conversion, to be enhanced, and concomitantly suppresses self-absorption and reduces QD loading in QD-in-polymer-based luminescent down-convertor coatings.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201700686

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