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We report the synthesis of colloidal CdTe/CdSe and CdTe/CdS nanoheterostructures based on CdTe tetrapods with a CdSe or CdS shell. The shell growth takes place on the lateral faces of the tetrapod legs, whereas the leg length remains essentially unchanged. Both the CdSe and CdS shell growth shifts the luminescence of the nanoheterostructures to the near-IR range, up to 850 nm, with a quantum yield of up to 20%. Analysis of the kinetics of the shift of the excitonic absorption band during nanoheterostructure growth suggests that the growth rate of CdS exceeds that of CdSe. The variation of the luminescence wavelength with shell thickness is compared to numerical modeling results.
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Original Russian Text © D.N. Dirin, R.B. Vasiliev, M.S. Sokolikova, A.M. Gaskov, 2011, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2011, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 28–33.
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Dirin, D.N., Vasiliev, R.B., Sokolikova, M.S. et al. Synthesis, morphology, and optical properties of colloidal CdTe/CdSe and CdTe/CdS nanoheterostructures based on CdTe tetrapods. Inorg Mater 47, 23–28 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168511010031
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