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- The surface of semiconductor materials, particularly at the nanoscale, significantly influences their properties due to a higher surface-to-bulk ratio.
- The study investigates how adding a single thiol functional group affects the electronic and optical properties of hydrogen-passivated nanodiamond adamantane, revealing notable changes.
- The addition of the thiol group lowers the optical gap by about 0.6 eV compared to pure adamantane, resulting in quenching of UV luminescence while maintaining the diamondoid's negative electron affinity.
Article Abstract
At the nanoscale, the surface becomes pivotal for the properties of semiconductors due to an increased surface-to-bulk ratio. Surface functionalization is a means to include semiconductor nanocrystals into devices. In this comprehensive experimental study we determine in detail the effect of a single thiol functional group on the electronic and optical properties of the hydrogen-passivated nanodiamond adamantane. We find that the optical properties of the diamondoid are strongly affected due to a drastic change in the occupied states. Compared to adamantane, the optical gap in adamantane-1-thiol is lowered by approximately 0.6 eV and UV luminescence is quenched. The lowest unoccupied states remain delocalized at the cluster surface leaving the diamondoid's negative electron affinity intact.
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