학술논문

Surface properties of CdS nanoparticles
Document Type
article
Source
Brazilian Journal of Physics. September 2006 36(3b)
Subject
CdS
Nanoparticles
Electronic structure
Photoluminescence
Language
English
ISSN
0103-9733
Abstract
With a view to contribute to the understanding the surface effects on optical properties process, and its hole in the electronic properties of the nanoparticles, CdS based nanoparticles are characterised by different experimental techniques and the experimental results compared to density functional theory calculations. Our results indicate that cubic CdS nanoparticles present a strong structural deformation, hexagonal reconstructed structures preserve their lattice behaviour. Both cubic and hexagonal CdS nanoparticles are S-terminated after relaxation, even when mildly Cd-rich nanoparticles are considered. A broad peak observed in our PL measurements is interpreted as an experimental evidence of the surface related peak observed around 1.8 eV in our calculated DOS for the hexagonal relaxed structure.