Mn-Substituted Inorganic−Organic Hybrid Materials Based on ZnSe: Nanostructures That May Lead to Magnetic Semiconductors with a Strong Quantum Confinement Effect

• DOI: 10.1021/nl015556e
• Publication Date: 2002-07-26T04:41:49Z
• Authors: Heulings; Xiaoying Huang; Jing Li; Tan Yuen; C. L. Lin
• Keywords: Nanomaterials; Ethylene diamine; Potential well; Charge carrier

Nanomaterials that make use of both electron charge and spin are highly desirable extremely attractive in the development new multifunctional devices for optoelectronics information storage technology. In this study, we demonstrate hybrid nanostructures Zn1-xMnxSe(L)0.5 (L = ethylenediamine, 1,3-propanediamine) can be assembled with substitution Zn Mn ZnSe(L)0.5 systems. The latter composed perfectly ordered ZnSe semiconductor nanolayers interconnected via organic molecules coordinately bonded to act as "linkers" or "spacers". These possess magnetically active periodic crystalline structures, which exhibit large blue shifts their optical absorption edges (∼1.0−1.2 eV). Such a direct result very strong quantum confinement effect (QCE).