Quaternary alloy semiconductor nanobelts with bandgap spanning the entire visible spectrum

Anlian Pan; Ruibin Liu; Minghua Sun; Cun-Zheng Ning

doi:10.1021/ja904137m

Quaternary alloy semiconductor nanobelts with bandgap spanning the entire visible spectrum

J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Jul 15;131(27):9502-3. doi: 10.1021/ja904137m.

Authors

Anlian Pan¹, Ruibin Liu, Minghua Sun, Cun-Zheng Ning

Affiliation

¹ Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA.

PMID: 19545159
DOI: 10.1021/ja904137m

Abstract

We used an improved cothermal evaporation route for the first time to achieve quaternary semiconductor nanostructured alloys, using an example of Zn(x)Cd(1-x)S(y)Se(1-y) nanobelts. The PL (bandgap) of these as-grown nanostructured alloys can be continuously tunable across the entire visible spectrum through experimentally controlling their compositions. Such widely controlled alloy nanostructures via composition/light emission provide a new material platform for applications in wavelength-tunable lasers, multicolor detectors, full-spectrum solar cells, LEDs, and color displays.