Influence of II–VI nanocrystal shapes on optical properties

Electronic structure of CdTe nanocrystals: a tight-binding study

“…More recently, Albe et al 19 reported TB calculations for ZnS and CdSe QD's, also based on an exact diagonalization of the cluster Hamiltonian, but including the spin-orbit interaction. However, the "brute force" method, suitable for studying the QD shape effects they focused on, is rather limited to small sizes and does not allow any symmetry analysis of the QD eigenstates.…”

Computational study of the relative stabilities of ZnS clusters, for sizes between 1 and 4nm

“…These small semiconductor nanocrystals are usually known as quantum dots [3], and the material composed of these crystals is referred to as quantized matter. Quantum dots have properties that could lead to new electronic devices; and II-VI, III-V and other semiconductors are being investigated as possible materials to be used in these devices [4][5][6][7][8][9]. It is thus of relevance to have a good knowledge of the structures, energies and morphologies of nanoparticles of these materials.…”

Emergent methods to synthesize and characterize semiconductor CuO nanoparticles with various morphologies – an overview

“…Among the various materials mentioned above, semiconductor nanoscale materials, such as nanowires, nanorods, and nanodiscs have stimulated great interest due to their importance in basic research and potential applications [5]. They are quite attractive as components of electronic devices because many of their physical properties can be controlled through modification of the sizes and shapes of the building blocks [6,7]. To this end, various techniques including the vapor-phase transport, laser ablation, chemical vapor deposition, arc-discharge, template-based, solution-chemistry methods, etc., have been developed to prepare well-aligned 1D nanomaterials [8][9][10][11][12][13].…”