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The effects of halide-ligand exchange and Cu and Ag doping are studied on structural, optical, and electrical properties of four monolayer CdSe nanoplatelet (NPL) and NPL thin films. Combinational study shows that NH4Cl-treatment on CdSe NPL and NPL thin films show tetragonal lattice distortion of NPL, side-to-side attachment between NPLs, bathochromic shift in absorption spectra, and complete quenching of band-edge and dopant-induced emissions. First-principle calculations reveal that Cl creates states below valence band maximum while Ag and Cu dopants create acceptor-like states, explaining the change of their optical property. Field-effect transistors are fabricated to investigate the effect of doping and reduced interplatelet distance on electrical properties of CdSe NPL thin films, demonstrating Cu and Ag dopants mitigate n-type character of CdSe NPL thin films. Temperature-dependent electrical characterization is conducted to further understand charge transport behavior depending on the existence of dopants. This work provides scientific information on the influence of surface chemistry and impurity doping on quantum confined semiconductors and new directions for the design of high-performance nanomaterial-based electronic and optoelectronic devices. Ministry of Education (MOE) National Research Foundation (NRF) Accepted version The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from Singapore National Research Foundation under the Program of NRF-NRFI2016-08, the Competitive Research Program NRF-CRP14-2014-03, and Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 1 grant (MOE-RG62/20). The authors acknowledge the financial support from National Science Foundation the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (2019R1C1C1003319), Creative Materials Discovery Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (NRF-2018M3D1A1059001), and Korea University Future Research Grant. H.V.D. also acknowledges support from TUBA. Y.G.K. and M.J.H. were supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (2021R1A2C1009303).

Department of Biomedical Science, CHA University, Seoul 135-081, Republic of Korea b Fertility Center of Gangnam Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, CHA University, Seoul 135-081, Republic of Korea c Severance Hospital Integrative Research Institute for Cerebral & Cardiovascular Disease, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul 120-752, Republic of Korea Magee-Womens Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA