Fabricating thin films with colloidal quantum dots on planar substrates using polymethyl methacrylate

Tananaev, P.N., Boginskaya, I.A., Bykov, I.V., Trofimov, I.V., Rodionov, I.A., Ryzhikov, I.A., Yankovskiy, G.M., Baryshev, A.V.

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Тананаев П.Н., Богинская И.А., Быков И.В., Трофимов И.В., Родионов И.А., Рыжиков И.А., Янковский Г.М., Барышев А.В. Изготовление тонких слоев коллоидных квантовых точек на планарных субстратах с использованием полиметилметакрилата // Оптический журнал. 2018. Т. 85. № 3. С. 19–26. http://doi.org/10.17586/1023-5086-2018-85-03-19-26

Tananaev P.N., Boginskaya I.A., Bykov I.V., Trofimov I.V., Rodionov I.A., Ryzhikov I.A., Yankovskiy G.M., Baryshev A.V. Fabricating thin films with colloidal quantum dots on planar substrates using polymethyl methacrylate [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2018. V. 85. № 3. P. 19–26. http://doi.org/10.17586/1023-5086-2018-85-03-19-26

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P. N. Tananaev, I. A. Boginskaya, I. V. Bykov, I. V. Trofimov, I. A. Rodionov, I. A. Ryzhikov, G. M. Yankovskiĭ, and A. V. Baryshev, "Fabricating thin films with colloidal quantum dots on planar substrates using polymethyl methacrylate," Journal of Optical Technology. 85(3), 136-143 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.85.000136

Abstract:

This paper demonstrates the possibilities of a method of depositing uniform layers of colloidal CdSe/CdS/ZnS quantum dots with a hydrophobic shell made from fatty acids and aliphatic amines onto planar substrates. Using centrifugation onto flat substrates, separate thin layers of polymethyl methacrylate and quantum dots are deposited with good adhesion, with the quantum dots being dispersed in the polymethyl methacrylate. The topology of the fabricated layers is investigated by means of atomic-force microscopy and luminescence mapping, and the processes of aggregation and segregation of the quantum dots into a separate phase is studied. The deposited layers can be structured by means of electron-beam lithography in order to create quantum-dot-based nanostructures.

Keywords:

colloidal quantum dots, polymethyl methacrylate, thin films, nanoplasmonics, nanophotonics, centrifugation

Acknowledgements:

The research was supported by the Fund for Promising Research (7/004/2013–2018); Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Bauman MSTU) (ID 74300).
We thank A. V. Zverev for selecting the conditions for taking pictures by SEM. The studies were carried out using the material-engineering facilities of TsKP Functional Micro/Nanosystems Scientific Education Center of the N. É. Bauman MSTU.

OCIS codes: 160.2540, 160.4236, 240.2130, 300.6280, 350.4238

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