Fig. 1: Synthesis of InAs QDs with and without ZnCl2 coordination complex.
From: Chemically and electronically active metal ions on InAs quantum dots for infrared detectors

a Schematic of the colloidal InAs QD syntheses with and without the ZnCl2-based coordination complex, and UV‒vis-NIR absorption spectra of b InAs QDs and c InAs:Zn QDs. The black and red curves indicate the absorbance spectra of the QDs before and after size-selective precipitation, respectively.