Coherent Acoustic Phonons in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal Superlattices

Poyser, Caroline L.; Czerniuk, Thomas; Akimov, Andrey; Diroll, Benjamin T.; Gaulding, E. Ashley; Salasyuk, Alexey S.; Kent, Anthony J.; Yakovlev, Dmitri R.; Bayer, Manfred; Murray, Christopher B.

doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b06465

Coherent Acoustic Phonons in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal Superlattices

Journal Article · Tue Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2015 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b06465· OSTI ID:1247347

Poyser, Caroline L. ^[1]; Czerniuk, Thomas ^[2]; Akimov, Andrey ^[1]; Diroll, Benjamin T. ^[3]; Gaulding, E. Ashley ^[3]; Salasyuk, Alexey S. ^[4]; Kent, Anthony J. ^[1]; Yakovlev, Dmitri R. ^[5]; Bayer, Manfred ^[5]; Murray, Christopher B. ^[3]

Univ. of Nottingham (United Kingdom)
Technische Univ. of Dortmund (Germany)
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Russia)
Technische Univ. of Dortmund (Germany); Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Russia)

The phonon properties of films fabricated from colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals play a major role in thermal conductance and electron scattering, which govern the principles for building colloidal-based electronics and optics including thermoelectric devices with a high ZT factor. The key point in understanding the phonon properties is to obtain the strength of the elastic bonds formed by organic ligands connecting the individual nanocrystallites. In the case of very weak bonding, the ligands become the bottleneck for phonon transport between infinitively rigid nanocrystals. In the opposite case of strong bonding, the colloids cannot be considered as infinitively rigid beads and the distortion of the superlattice caused by phonons includes the distortion of the colloids themselves. We use the picosecond acoustics technique to study the acoustic coherent phonons in superlattices of nanometer crystalline CdSe colloids. We observe the quantization of phonons with frequencies up to 30 GHz. The frequencies of quantized phonons depend on the thickness of the colloidal films and possess linear phonon dispersion. Finally, the measured speed of sound and corresponding wave modulus in the colloidal films point on the strong elastic coupling provided by organic ligands between colloidal nanocrystals.

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Research Organization:: Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (US)

Sponsoring Organization:: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); Government of Russia; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0002158

OSTI ID:: 1247347

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Journal Name: ACS Nano Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 10; ISSN 1936-0851

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: ENGLISH

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