Huichen Zhang, Yoann Prado, Rodolphe Alchaar, Henri Lehouelleur, Mariarosa Cavallo, Tung Huu Dang, Adrien Khalili, Erwan Bossavit, Corentin Dabard, Nicolas Ledos, Mathieu G Silly, Ali Madouri, Daniele Fournier, James K Utterback, Debora Pierucci, Victor Parahyba, Pierre Potet, David Darson, Sandrine Ithurria, Bartłomiej Szafran, Benjamin T Diroll, Juan I Climente, Emmanuel Lhuillier
Transferring nanocrystals (NCs) from the laboratory environment toward practical applications has raised new challenges. HgTe appears as the most spectrally tunable infrared colloidal platform. Its low-temperature synthesis reduces the growth energy cost yet also favors sintering. Once coupled to a read-out circuit, the Joule effect aggregates the particles, leading to a poorly defined optical edge and large dark current. Here, we demonstrate that CdS shells bring the expected thermal stability (no redshift upon annealing, reduced tendency to form amalgams, and preservation of photoconduction after an atomic layer deposition process)...
April 12, 2024: Nano Letters