Simple Non-aqueous Fabrication Route for Oleic Acid Capped Luminescent Cadmium Sulphide Quantum Dots at Relatively Low Temperature

Jayesh Patel, Frej Mighri, Abdellah Ajji

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Center for Applied Research on Polymers and Composites, CREPEC.

DOI: 10.4236/snl.2011.13011                

Abstract

In this communication, we report a simplistic non-aqueous fabrication route for oleic-acid capped luminescent cadmium sulphide quantum dots at low temperature. The resulting quantum dots, obtained without using any complicated reagents, are cubic in phase, monodispersed and have excellent optical properties. The simplicity of this fabrication route is also promising to develop other oleic acid-capped metal sulphide quantum dots at relatively low temperature.

Keywords

Semiconductor, CdS Quantum Dots, Quantum Confinement, XPS, Photoluminescence

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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