Multi-heterojunction nanoparticles, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same

US10510924B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · US
• Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC · US
• DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC · US

Inventors

• Moonsub Shim · Savoy, US
• Nuri Oh · Champaign, US
• You Zhai · Urbana, US
• Sooji Nam · Urbana, US
• Peter Trefonas, III · Medway, US
• Kishori Deshpande · Freeport, US
• Jake Joo · Somerville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 16, 2015
• Grant date: Dec 17, 2019
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S977/949
• WIPO field: Semiconductors
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a semiconducting nanoparticle comprising a one-dimensional semiconducting nanoparticle having a first end and a second end; where the second end is opposed to the first end; and two first endcaps, one of which contacts the first end and the other of which contacts the second end respectively of the one-dimensional semiconducting nanoparticle; where the first endcap that contacts the first end comprises a first semiconductor and where the first endcap extends from the first end of the one-dimensional semiconducting nanoparticle to form a first nanocrystal heterojunction; where the first endcap that contacts the second end comprises a second semiconductor; where the first endcap extends from the second end of the one-dimensional semiconducting nanoparticle to form a second nanocrystal heterojunction; and where the first semiconductor and the second semiconductor are chemically different from each other.