CuInTe₂ Nanocrystals: Shape and Size Control, Formation Mechanism and Application, and Use as Photovoltaics

Guanwei Jia; Baokun Liu; Kun Wang; Chengduo Wang; Peixu Yang; Jinhui Liu; Weidong Zhang; Rongbin Li; Shaojun Zhang; Jiang Du

doi:10.3390/nano9030409

CuInTe₂ Nanocrystals: Shape and Size Control, Formation Mechanism and Application, and Use as Photovoltaics

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2019 Mar 11;9(3):409. doi: 10.3390/nano9030409.

Authors

Guanwei Jia^{1

2}, Baokun Liu³, Kun Wang⁴, Chengduo Wang⁵, Peixu Yang⁶, Jinhui Liu⁷, Weidong Zhang⁸, Rongbin Li⁹, Shaojun Zhang¹⁰, Jiang Du^{11

12}

Affiliations

¹ Henan Province Industrial Technology Research Institute of Resources and Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. jiaguanwei@126.com.
² School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China. jiaguanwei@126.com.
³ Henan Province Industrial Technology Research Institute of Resources and Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. 13673387324@163.com.
⁴ Henan Province Industrial Technology Research Institute of Resources and Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. 13592589651@163.com.
⁵ Henan Province Industrial Technology Research Institute of Resources and Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. wangcd@zzu.edu.cn.
⁶ Henan Province Industrial Technology Research Institute of Resources and Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. yangpx@zzu.edu.cn.
⁷ Henan Province Industrial Technology Research Institute of Resources and Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. jhliu13s@alum.imr.ac.cn.
⁸ Henan Province Industrial Technology Research Institute of Resources and Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. zhangwd@zzu.edu.cn.
⁹ School of metallurgical and Ecological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China. lirongbin822@163.com.
¹⁰ Henan Province Industrial Technology Research Institute of Resources and Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. zhangshaojun@zzu.edu.cn.
¹¹ Henan Province Industrial Technology Research Institute of Resources and Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. 0210927@163.com.
¹² Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Materials Institute, Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. 0210927@163.com.

Abstract

We report on the synthesis of CuInTe₂ nanoparticles and their function in photovoltaic equipment, such as solar cells. Under certain synthesis conditions, the CuInTe₂ nanocrystals form shape with nanocrystals, nanorods or nanocubes. It was found that CuTe nanocrystals could be converted to CuInTe₂ by addition of an In reactant. CuInTe₂ nanorods were synthesized using this method.

Keywords: CuInTe2; formation mechanism; nanocrystals; nanorods; photovoltaics.

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