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Synthesis, Structure, and Optical Properties of New Cadmium Chalcogenide Clusters of the Type [Cd 10 E 4 (E'Ph) 12 (PR 3 ) 4 ], (E, E' = Te, Se, S)
Author(s) -
Eichhöfer Andreas,
Aharoni Assaf,
Banin Uri
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.354
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1521-3749
pISSN - 0044-2313
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3749(200211)628:11<2415::aid-zaac2415>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - chalcogenide , chemistry , chalcogen , crystallography , luminescence , photoluminescence , crystal structure , molecule , cluster (spacecraft) , band gap , analytical chemistry (journal) , stereochemistry , materials science , physics , optics , optoelectronics , programming language , organic chemistry , chromatography , computer science
New cadmium chalcogenide cluster molecules [Cd 10 E 4 (E'Ph) 12 (P n Pr 3 ) 4 ], E = Te, E' = Te ( 1 ) and [Cd 10 E 4 (E'Ph) 12 (P n Pr 2 Ph) 4 ] E = Te, E' = Se ( 2 ); E = Te E' = S ( 3 ); E = Se, E' = S ( 4 ) have been synthesized and structurally characterized by single crystal X‐ray structure analysis. The influence of the variation of the chalcogen atom is investigated by structural means and by optical spectroscopy. All cluster‐molecules have a broad emission in the blue‐visible range at low temperature as indicated by photo luminescence (PL) measurements. A clear classification of the emission peak position can be made based on the E' species suggesting that the emission is assigned to transitions associated with the cluster surface ligands. Photoluminescence excitation and absorption measurements display a systematic shift of the band gap to the higher energies with the variation of E and E' from Te to Se to S, as also occurs in the respective series of the bulk semiconductors.