In this review, we highlight the role of halogenated compounds in the colloidal synthesis of nanostructured semiconductors. Halogen-containing metallic salts used as precursors and halogenated hydrocarbons used as ligands allow stabilizing different shapes and crystal phases, and enable the formation of colloidal systems with different dimensionality. We summarize recent reports on the tremendous influence of these compounds on the physical properties of nanocrystals, like field-effect mobility and solar cell performance and outline main analytical methods for the nanocrystal surface control.
@article{arxiv.1804.02977,
title = {Halogens in the synthesis of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals},
author = {Frauke Gerdes and Eugen Klein and Sascha Kull and Mohammad Mehdi Ramin Moayed and Rostyslav Lesyuk and Christian Klinke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02977},
year = {2018}
}