| Colloidal Inp Quantum Wires and Quantum Rods: Synthesis, Photoluminescence, and Quantum Confinement Effects [Invited] | ||
| Fudong Wang, Richard A. Loomis, Christine Kirmaier, Dewey Holten and William E. Buhro, Department of Chemistry, Washington University, Campus Box 1134, One Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO 63130-4899 Soluble, narrowly dispersed InP quantum wires with controllable diameters and rods with controllable diameters and lengths are grown from Bi nanoparticles by the solution-liquid-solid (SLS) mechanism in the presence of hexadecylamine (HDA) and other conventional quantum-dot surfactants. Quantum wires are ideal 2D-confinement systems, the properties of which will be compared to those of the analogous 3D-confined dots and anisotropically 3D-confined rods. The critical length where a rod becomes a wire will be analyzed. The photoluminescence of these quantum wires and rods will be described. Extended Abstract Status: Not Uploaded | ||