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Giant Zeeman splitting in nucleation-controlled doped CdSe:Mn2+ quantum nanoribbons

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Doping of semiconductor nanocrystals by transition-metal ions has attracted tremendous attention owing to their nanoscale spintronic applications. Such doping is, however, difficult to achieve in low-dimensional strongly quantum confined nanostructures by conventional growth procedures. Here we demonstrate that the incorporation of manganese ions up to 10% into CdSe quantum nanoribbons can be readily achieved by a nucleation-controlled doping process. The cation-exchange reaction of (CdSe)13 clusters with Mn2+ ions governs the Mn2+ incorporation during the nucleation stage. This highly efficient Mn2+ doping of the CdSe quantum nanoribbons results in giant exciton Zeeman splitting with an effective g-factor of ∼600, the largest value seen so far in diluted magnetic semiconductor nanocrystals. Furthermore, the sign of the s–d exchange is inverted to negative owing to the exceptionally strong quantum confinement in our nanoribbons. The nucleation-controlled doping strategy demonstrated here thus opens the possibility of doping various strongly quantum confined nanocrystals for diverse applications.

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Figure 1: Synthesis and characterization of CdSe:Mn2+ quantum nanoribbons.
Figure 2: Spectroscopic investigation of the process of formation and Mn2+ doping of CdSe quantum ribbons.
Figure 3: Theoretical investigation of Mn2+ doping of CdSe clusters.
Figure 4: MCD spectra and corresponding Zeeman splittings of CdSe:Mn2+ quantum ribbons.

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We would like to thank the National Creative Research Initiative Program (T.H. and J.P.) and the World Class University Program (T.H. and J.P.) of the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the US National Science Foundation (J.K.F.) and the Robert A. Welch Foundation (G.S.H.) for financial support. We gratefully acknowledge the Texas Advanced Computing Center for use of their computing resources. We thank M.-S. Won in Korea Basic Science Institute for the EPR characterization. We also thank K. Ando for the preliminary study on MCD. J.H.Y. has benefited from a Seoul Science Fellowship.

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    Jung Ho Yu, Jin Joo, Dong Won Lee, Jae Sung Son & Taeghwan Hyeon

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    Xinyu Liu, Shaoping Shen, Kritsanu Tivakornsasithorn, Margaret Dobrowolska & Jacek K. Furdyna

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J.H.Y., X.L., J.K.F. and T.H. designed and carried out experiments, analysed data and wrote the manuscript. K.E.K. and G.S.H. carried out the quantum mechanical calculations and described the results. J.H.Y., J.J., D.W.L. and J.S.S. carried out the synthesis of the materials. J.P. and Y.-W.K. carried out TEM measurements. K.-T.K. and J.-H.P. conducted XAS and EXAFS. X.L., S.S., K.T., M.D. and J.K.F. carried out magneto-optical experiments and interpreted the data. All authors have reviewed, discussed and approved the results and conclusions of this article.

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Yu, J., Liu, X., Kweon, K. et al. Giant Zeeman splitting in nucleation-controlled doped CdSe:Mn2+ quantum nanoribbons. Nature Mater 9, 47–53 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2572

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