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Dad S, Dziawa P, Zajkowska-Pietrzak W, Kret S, Kozłowski M, Wójcik M, Sadowski J. Axially lattice-matched wurtzite/rock-salt GaAs/Pb 1-xSn xTe nanowires. Sci Rep 2024; 14:589. [PMID: 38182872 PMCID: PMC10770406 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-51200-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/07/2024] Open
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We investigate the full and half-shells of Pb1-xSnxTe topological crystalline insulator deposited by molecular beam epitaxy on the sidewalls of wurtzite GaAs nanowires (NWs). Due to the distinct orientation of the IV-VI shell with respect to the III-V core the lattice mismatch between both materials along the nanowire axis is less than 4%. The Pb1-xSnxTe solid solution is chosen due to the topological crystalline insulator properties above some critical concentrations of Sn (x ≥ 0.36). The IV-VI shells are grown with different compositions spanning from binary SnTe, through Pb1-xSnxTe with decreasing x value down to binary PbTe (x = 0). The samples are analysed by scanning transmission electron microscopy, which reveals the presence of (110) or (100) oriented binary PbTe and (100) Pb1-xSnxTe on the sidewalls of wurtzite GaAs NWs.
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- Sania Dad
- Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668, Warsaw, Poland.
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- Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668, Warsaw, Poland.
- Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02093, Warsaw, Poland.
- Ensemble3 Centre of Excellence, Wolczynska Str. 133, 01-919, Warsaw, Poland.
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Chen C, Chu Y, Zhang L, Lin H, Fang W, Zhang Z, Zha C, Wang K, Yang H, Yu X, Gott JA, Aagesen M, Cheng Z, Huo S, Liu H, Sanchez AM, Zhang Y. Initialization of Nanowire or Cluster Growth Critically Controlled by the Effective V/III Ratio at the Early Nucleation Stage. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:4433-4439. [PMID: 37141511 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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For self-catalyzed nanowires (NWs), reports on how the catalytic droplet initiates successful NW growth are still lacking, making it difficult to control the yield and often accompanying a high density of clusters. Here, we have performed a systematic study on this issue, which reveals that the effective V/III ratio at the initial growth stage is a critical factor that governs the NW growth yield. To initiate NW growth, the ratio should be high enough to allow the nucleation to extend to the entire contact area between the droplet and substrate, which can elevate the droplet off of the substrate, but it should not be too high in order to keep the droplet. This study also reveals that the cluster growth between NWs is also initiated from large droplets. This study provides a new angle from the growth condition to explain the cluster formation mechanism, which can guide high-yield NW growth.
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- Chen Chen
- College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- School of Micro-Nano Electronics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, China
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- School of Micro-Nano Electronics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, China
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- College of Photonic and Electronic Engineering, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, Fujian, China
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- School of Micro-Nano Electronics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, China
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- School of Micro-Nano Electronics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, China
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- School of Micro-Nano Electronics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, China
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- School of Micro-Nano Electronics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, China
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- Institute for Materials Discovery, University College London, Roberts Building, Malet Place, London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- School of Micro-Nano Electronics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, China
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- London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London WC1H 0AH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- School of Micro-Nano Electronics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, China
- Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom
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Yan X, Liu Y, Zha C, Zhang X, Zhang Y, Ren X. Non-〈111〉-oriented semiconductor nanowires: growth, properties, and applications. NANOSCALE 2023; 15:3032-3050. [PMID: 36722935 DOI: 10.1039/d2nr06421a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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In recent years, non-〈111〉-oriented semiconductor nanowires have attracted increasing interest in terms of fundamental research and promising applications due to their outstanding crystal quality and distinctive physical properties. Here, a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the study of non-〈111〉-oriented semiconductor nanowires is presented. We start by introducing various growth techniques for obtaining nanowires with certain orientations, for which the growth energetics and kinetics are discussed. Attention is then given to the physical properties of non-〈111〉 nanowires, as predicted by theoretical calculations or demonstrated experimentally. After that, we review the advantages and challenges of non-〈111〉 nanowires as building blocks for electronic and optoelectronic devices. Finally, we discuss the possible challenges and opportunities in the research field of non-〈111〉 semiconductor nanowires.
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- Xin Yan
- State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China.
- School of Micro-Nano Electronics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China.
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- School of Micro-Nano Electronics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China.
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Modeling the Radial Growth of Self-Catalyzed III-V Nanowires. NANOMATERIALS 2022; 12:nano12101698. [PMID: 35630920 PMCID: PMC9142916 DOI: 10.3390/nano12101698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Revised: 05/11/2022] [Accepted: 05/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A new model for the radial growth of self-catalyzed III-V nanowires on different substrates is presented, which describes the nanowire morphological evolution without any free parameters. The model takes into account the re-emission of group III atoms from a mask surface and the shadowing effect in directional deposition techniques such as molecular beam epitaxy. It is shown that radial growth is faster for larger pitches of regular nanowire arrays or lower surface density, and can be suppressed by increasing the V/III flux ratio or decreasing re-emission. The model describes quite well the data on the morphological evolution of Ga-catalyzed GaP and GaAs nanowires on different substrates, where the nanowire length increases linearly and the radius enlarges sub-linearly with time. The obtained analytical expressions and numerical data should be useful for morphological control over different III-V nanowires in a wide range of growth conditions.
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In situ analysis of catalyst composition during gold catalyzed GaAs nanowire growth. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4577. [PMID: 31594930 PMCID: PMC6783420 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12437-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 09/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Semiconductor nanowires offer the opportunity to incorporate novel structures and functionality into electronic and optoelectronic devices. A clear understanding of the nanowire growth mechanism is essential for well-controlled growth of structures with desired properties, but the understanding is currently limited by a lack of empirical measurements of important parameters during growth, such as catalyst particle composition. However, this is difficult to accurately determine by investigating post-growth. We report direct in situ measurement of the catalyst composition during nanowire growth for the first time. We study Au-seeded GaAs nanowires inside an electron microscope as they grow and measure the catalyst composition using X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy. The Ga content in the catalyst during growth increases with both temperature and Ga precursor flux. Semiconductor nanowires are promising materials for miniaturized devices, but a thorough understanding of their growth mechanism is necessary for controlled synthesis. Here, the authors use in situ spectroscopy and microscopy to measure the composition of the catalyst droplet as a function of different growth parameters during Au-seeded GaAs nanowire growth.
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Lehmann S, Wallentin J, Mårtensson EK, Ek M, Deppert K, Dick KA, Borgström MT. Simultaneous Growth of Pure Wurtzite and Zinc Blende Nanowires. NANO LETTERS 2019; 19:2723-2730. [PMID: 30888174 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The opportunity to engineer III-V nanowires in wurtzite and zinc blende crystal structure allows for exploring properties not conventionally available in the bulk form as well as opening the opportunity for use of additional degrees of freedom in device fabrication. However, the fundamental understanding of the nature of polytypism in III-V nanowire growth is still lacking key ingredients to be able to connect the results of modeling and experiments. Here we show InP nanowires of both pure wurtzite and pure zinc blende grown simultaneously on the same InP [100]-oriented substrate. We find wurtzite nanowires to grow along [Formula: see text] and zinc blende counterparts along [Formula: see text]. Further, we discuss the nucleation, growth, and polytypism of our nanowires against the background of existing theory. Our results demonstrate, first, that the crystal growth conditions for wurtzite and zinc blende nanowire growth are not mutually exclusive and, second, that the interface energies predominantly determine the crystal structure of the nanowires.
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- Sebastian Lehmann
- Solid State Physics and NanoLund , Lund University , Box 118, S-221 00 Lund , Sweden
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- Solid State Physics and NanoLund , Lund University , Box 118, S-221 00 Lund , Sweden
- Synchrotron Radiation Research and NanoLund , Box 118, S-221 00 Lund , Sweden
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- Solid State Physics and NanoLund , Lund University , Box 118, S-221 00 Lund , Sweden
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- Centre for Analysis and Synthesis , Lund University , Box 124, 221 00 , Lund , Sweden
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- Solid State Physics and NanoLund , Lund University , Box 118, S-221 00 Lund , Sweden
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- Solid State Physics and NanoLund , Lund University , Box 118, S-221 00 Lund , Sweden
- Centre for Analysis and Synthesis , Lund University , Box 124, 221 00 , Lund , Sweden
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- Solid State Physics and NanoLund , Lund University , Box 118, S-221 00 Lund , Sweden
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Kim W, Dubrovskii VG, Vukajlovic-Plestina J, Tütüncüoglu G, Francaviglia L, Güniat L, Potts H, Friedl M, Leran JB, Fontcuberta I Morral A. Bistability of Contact Angle and Its Role in Achieving Quantum-Thin Self-Assisted GaAs nanowires. NANO LETTERS 2018; 18:49-57. [PMID: 29257895 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Achieving quantum confinement by bottom-up growth of nanowires has so far been limited to the ability of obtaining stable metal droplets of radii around 10 nm or less. This is within reach for gold-assisted growth. Because of the necessity to maintain the group III droplets during growth, direct synthesis of quantum sized structures becomes much more challenging for self-assisted III-V nanowires. In this work, we elucidate and solve the challenges that involve the synthesis of gallium-assisted quantum-sized GaAs nanowires. We demonstrate the existence of two stable contact angles for the gallium droplet on top of GaAs nanowires. Contact angle around 130° fosters a continuous increase in the nanowire radius, while 90° allows for the stable growth of ultrathin tops. The experimental results are fully consistent with our model that explains the observed morphological evolution under the two different scenarios. We provide a generalized theory of self-assisted III-V nanowires that describes simultaneously the droplet shape relaxation and the NW radius evolution. Bistability of the contact angle described here should be the general phenomenon that pertains for any vapor-liquid-solid nanowires and significantly refines our picture of how nanowires grow. Overall, our results suggest a new path for obtaining ultrathin one-dimensional III-V nanostructures for studying lateral confinement of carriers.
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- Wonjong Kim
- Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Tan SL, Genuist Y, den Hertog MI, Bellet-Amalric E, Mariette H, Pelekanos NT. Highly uniform zinc blende GaAs nanowires on Si(111) using a controlled chemical oxide template. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2017; 28:255602. [PMID: 28475104 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aa7169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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GaAs-based nanowires (NWs) can be grown without extrinsic catalyst using the Ga-assisted vapor-liquid-solid method in an epitaxy reactor, on Si(111) substrates covered with native oxide. Despite its wide use, the conventional method fails to provide a good control over uniformity, reproducibility, and yield of vertical NWs. The nucleation of GaAs NWs is very sensitive to the properties of the native oxide such as chemical composition, roughness and porosity. Consequently, samples grown under the same conditions on Si(111) substrates from different manufacturing batches often produce dramatically different growth results. In order to remove the dependence on wafer batch, a controlled chemical oxidation process is developed to replace the native oxide on Si(111) substrate with a reproducible chemical oxide. A high yield (exceeding 90%) of vertical GaAs NWs is achieved with excellent uniformity on chemical oxide-covered substrate. As an added advantage, the crystalline quality is significantly improved over that of GaAs NWs grown on native oxide-covered substrate, and pure zinc blende crystal structure can be achieved with minimal defects. In addition, the chemical oxide can be used as a template for producing different combinations of NW densities and sizes in parallel on the same wafer using the same growth conditions.
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- Siew Li Tan
- Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France. CEA, INAC, 'Nanophysique et Semiconducteurs' group, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble cedex 9, France
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Zannier V, Ercolani D, Gomes UP, David J, Gemmi M, Dubrovskii VG, Sorba L. Catalyst Composition Tuning: The Key for the Growth of Straight Axial Nanowire Heterostructures with Group III Interchange. NANO LETTERS 2016; 16:7183-7190. [PMID: 27760298 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Au-catalyzed III-V nanowire heterostructures based on the group III interchange usually grow straight only in one of the two growth sequences, whereas the other sequence produces kinked geometries; thus, the realization of double heterostructures remains challenging. Here, we investigate the growth of Au-assisted InAs-GaAs and GaAs-InAs axial nanowire heterostructures. A detailed study of the heterostructure morphology as a function of growth parameters and chemical composition of the catalyst nanoparticle is performed by means of scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis. Our results clearly demonstrate that the nanoparticle composition, rather than other growth parameters, as postulated so far, controls the growth mode and the resulting nanowire morphology. Although GaAs easily grows straight on InAs, straight growth of InAs on GaAs is achieved only if the nanoparticle composition is properly tuned. We find that straight InAs segments on GaAs require high group III-to-Au ratios in the nanoparticle (greater than 0.8); otherwise, the droplet wets the sidewalls and the nanowire kinks. We discuss the observed behavior within a theoretical model that relates the nanoparticle stability to the group III-to-Au ratio. Based on this finding, we demonstrate the growth of straight nanowire heterostructures for both sequences. The proposed strategy can be extended to other III-V nanowire heterostructures based on the group III interchange, allowing for straight morphology regardless of the growth sequence, and ultimately for designing nanowire heterostructures with the required properties for different applications.
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- Valentina Zannier
- NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore , Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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- NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore , Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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- NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore , Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia , Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia , Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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- St. Petersburg Academic University , Khlopina 8/3, 194021 Saint Petersburg, Russia
- ITMO University , Kronverkskiy Prospekt 49, 197101 Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore , Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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Vainorius N, Lehmann S, Gustafsson A, Samuelson L, Dick KA, Pistol ME. Wurtzite GaAs Quantum Wires: One-Dimensional Subband Formation. NANO LETTERS 2016; 16:2774-2780. [PMID: 27004550 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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It is of contemporary interest to fabricate nanowires having quantum confinement and one-dimensional subband formation. This is due to a host of applications, for example, in optical devices, and in quantum optics. We have here fabricated and optically investigated narrow, down to 10 nm diameter, wurtzite GaAs nanowires which show strong quantum confinement and the formation of one-dimensional subbands. The fabrication was bottom up and in one step using the vapor-liquid-solid growth mechanism. Combining photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy with transmission electron microscopy on the same individual nanowires, we were able to extract the effective masses of the electrons in the two lowest conduction bands as well as the effective masses of the holes in the two highest valence bands. Our results, combined with earlier demonstrations of thin crystal phase nanodots in GaAs, set the stage for the fabrication of crystal phase quantum dots having full three-dimensional confinement.
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- Neimantas Vainorius
- Solid State Physics and NanoLund, Lund University , P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Solid State Physics and NanoLund, Lund University , P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Solid State Physics and NanoLund, Lund University , P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Solid State Physics and NanoLund, Lund University , P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
- Centre for Analysis and Synthesis, Lund University , P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Solid State Physics and NanoLund, Lund University , P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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Interface dynamics and crystal phase switching in GaAs nanowires. Nature 2016; 531:317-22. [PMID: 26983538 PMCID: PMC4876924 DOI: 10.1038/nature17148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2015] [Accepted: 01/06/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Controlled formation of non-equilibrium crystal structures is one of the most important challenges in crystal growth. Catalytically-grown nanowires provide an ideal system for studying the fundamental physics of phase selection, while also offering the potential for novel electronic applications based on crystal polytype engineering. Here we image GaAs nanowires during growth as they are switched between polytypes by varying growth conditions. We find striking differences between the growth dynamics of the polytypes, including differences in interface morphology, step flow, and catalyst geometry. We explain the differences, and the phase selection, through a model that relates the catalyst volume, contact angle at the trijunction, and nucleation site of each new layer. This allows us to predict the conditions under which each phase should be preferred, and use these predictions to design GaAs heterostructures. We suggest that these results may apply to phase selection in other nanowire systems.
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Gorji Ghalamestani S, Lehmann S, Dick KA. Can antimonide-based nanowires form wurtzite crystal structure? NANOSCALE 2016; 8:2778-2786. [PMID: 26763161 DOI: 10.1039/c5nr07362f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The epitaxial growth of antimonide-based nanowires has become an attractive subject due to their interesting properties required for various applications such as long-wavelength IR detectors. The studies conducted on antimonide-based nanowires indicate that they preferentially crystallize in the zinc blende (ZB) crystal structure rather than wurtzite (WZ), which is common in other III-V nanowire materials. Also, with the addition of small amounts of antimony to arsenide- and phosphide-based nanowires grown under conditions otherwise leading to WZ structure, the crystal structure of the resulting ternary nanowires favors the ZB phase. Therefore, the formation of antimonide-based nanowires with the WZ phase presents fundamental challenges and is yet to be explored, but is particularly interesting for understanding the nanowire crystal phase in general. In this study, we examine the formation of Au-seeded InSb and GaSb nanowires under various growth conditions using metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. We address the possibility of forming other phases than ZB such as WZ and 4H in binary nanowires and demonstrate the controlled formation of WZ InSb nanowires. We further discuss the fundamental aspects of WZ growth in Au-seeded antimonide-based nanowires.
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- Solid State Physics, Lund University, Box 118, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden.
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- Solid State Physics, Lund University, Box 118, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden. and Polymer and Materials Chemistry, Lund University, Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
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Lehmann S, Jacobsson D, Dick KA. Crystal phase control in GaAs nanowires: opposing trends in the Ga- and As-limited growth regimes. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2015; 26:301001. [PMID: 26160888 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/30/301001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Here we demonstrate the existence of two distinct regimes for tuning crystal structure in GaAs nanowires from zinc blende to wurtzite using a single process parameter: V/III-ratio, or variation of the group V precursor flow. Extensive previous studies have shown that crystal structure is sensitive to V/III-ratio, and even that it is possible to change structure entirely using this single parameter. However, an open question has remained about whether the observed dependencies are related to growth technique or types of precursors used. Specifically, opposite trends have been reported for molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metal organic vapour phase epitaxy (MOVPE): while wurtzite GaAs growth is reported for high nominal V/III-ratio in MBE, zinc blende GaAs is formed in MOVPE under apparently the same parameter change (increasing precursor V/III-ratio). Here we show that these observations are not necessarily contradictory, as it may first appear, by providing a consolidated picture covering all regimes in one MOVPE growth machine only. More precisely, we observe wurtzite formation for medium nominal V/III-ratios with a critical sensitivity to the balance between Ga and As supply. Slight deviations from wurtzite conditions will result in zinc blende formation for either low V/III-ratio in the As-limited regime or high V/III-ratio in the Ga-limited regime. Our observations strongly indicate that the applied growth conditions are the crucial ingredients for crystal structure control in GaAs nanowires rather than the growth technique or precursors used.
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- Sebastian Lehmann
- Solid State Physics, Lund University, Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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Dubrovskii VG. Mono- and polynucleation, atomistic growth, and crystal phase of III-V nanowires under varying group V flow. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:204702. [PMID: 26026456 DOI: 10.1063/1.4921569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We present a refined model for the vapor-liquid-solid growth and crystal structure of Au-catalyzed III-V nanowires, which revisits several assumptions used so far and is capable of describing the transition from mononuclear to polynuclear regime and ultimately to regular atomistic growth. We construct the crystal phase diagrams and calculate the wurtzite percentages, elongation rates, critical sizes, and polynucleation thresholds of Au-catalyzed GaAs nanowires depending on the As flow. We find a non-monotonic dependence of the crystal phase on the group V flow, with the zincblende structure being preferred at low and high group V flows and the wurtzite structure forming at intermediate group V flows. This correlates with most of the available experimental data. Finally, we discuss the atomistic growth picture which yields zincblende crystal structure and should be very advantageous for fabrication of ternary III-V nanowires with well-controlled composition and heterointerfaces.
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- V G Dubrovskii
- Saint Petersburg Academic University, Khlopina 8/3, 194021 Saint Petersburg, Russia; Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, RAS, Politekhnicheskaya 26, 194021 Saint Petersburg, Russia; and ITMO University, Kronverkskiy pr. 49, 197101 Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Kelrich A, Dubrovskii VG, Calahorra Y, Cohen S, Ritter D. Control of morphology and crystal purity of InP nanowires by variation of phosphine flux during selective area MOMBE. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2015; 26:085303. [PMID: 25648852 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/8/085303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We present experimental results showing how the growth rate, morphology and crystal structure of Au-catalyzed InP nanowires (NWs) fabricated by selective area metal organic molecular beam epitaxy can be tuned by the growth parameters: temperature and phosphine flux. The InP NWs with 20-65 nm diameters are grown at temperatures of 420 and 480 °C with the PH3 flow varying from 1 to 9 sccm. The NW tapering is suppressed at a higher temperature, while pure wurtzite crystal structure is preferred at higher phosphine flows. Therefore, by combining high temperature and high phosphine flux, we are able to fabricate non-tapered and stacking fault-free InP NWs with the quality that other methods rarely achieve. We also develop a model for NW growth and crystal structure which explains fairly well the observed experimental tendencies.
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- A Kelrich
- Electrical Engineering Faculty, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Anttu N, Lehmann S, Storm K, Dick KA, Samuelson L, Wu PM, Pistol ME. Crystal phase-dependent nanophotonic resonances in InAs nanowire arrays. NANO LETTERS 2014; 14:5650-5655. [PMID: 25158002 DOI: 10.1021/nl502306x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Nanostructures have many material, electronic, and optical properties that are not found in bulk systems and that are relevant for technological applications. For example, nanowires realized from III-V semiconductors can be grown into a wurtzite crystal structure. This crystal structure does not naturally exist in bulk where these materials form the zinc-blende counterpart. Being able to concomitantly grow these nanowires in the zinc-blende and/or wurtzite crystal structure provides an important degree of control for the design and optimization of optoelectronic applications based on these semiconductor nanostructures. However, the refractive indices of this new crystallographic phase have so far not been elucidated. This shortcoming makes it impossible to predict and utilize the full potential of these new nanostructured materials for optoelectronics applications: a careful design and optimization of optical resonances by tuning the nanostructure geometry is needed to achieve optimal performance. Here, we report and analyze striking differences in the optical response of nanophotonic resonances in wurtzite and zinc-blende InAs nanowire arrays. Specifically, through reflectance measurements we find that the resonance can be tuned down to λ ≈ 380 nm in wurtzite nanowires by decreasing the nanowire diameter. In stark contrast, a similar tuning to below λ ≈ 500 nm is not possible in the zinc-blende nanowires. Furthermore, we find that the wurtzite nanowires can absorb twice as strongly as the zinc-blende nanowires. We attribute these strikingly large differences in resonant behavior to large differences between the refractive indices of the two crystallographic phases realized in these nanostructures. We anticipate our findings to be relevant for other III-V materials as well as for all material systems that manifest polytypism. Taken together, our results demonstrate crystal phase engineering as a potentially new design dimension for optoelectronics applications.
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- Nicklas Anttu
- Division of Solid State Physics and The Nanometer Structure Consortium (nmC@LU), Lund University , Box 118, S-22100 Lund, Sweden
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Inducing a direct-to-pseudodirect bandgap transition in wurtzite GaAs nanowires with uniaxial stress. Nat Commun 2014; 5:3655. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2013] [Accepted: 03/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Corfdir P, Van Hattem B, Uccelli E, Conesa-Boj S, Lefebvre P, Fontcuberta i Morral A, Phillips RT. Three-dimensional magneto-photoluminescence as a probe of the electronic properties of crystal-phase quantum disks in GaAs nanowires. NANO LETTERS 2013; 13:5303-5310. [PMID: 24134509 DOI: 10.1021/nl4028186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Crystal-phase engineering has emerged as a novel method of bandgap engineering, made feasible by the high surface-to-volume ratio of nanowires. There remains intense debate about the exact characteristics of the band structure of the novel crystal phases, such as wurtzite GaAs, obtained by this approach. We attack this problem via a low-temperature angle-dependent magneto-photoluminescence study of wurtzite/zinc-blende quantum disks in single GaAs nanowires. The exciton diamagnetic coefficient is proportional to the electron-hole correlation length, enabling a determination of the spatial extent of the exciton wave function in the plane and along the confinement axis of the crystal-phase quantum disks. Depending on the disk nature, the diamagnetic coefficient measured in Faraday geometry ranges between 25 and 75 μeV/T(2). For a given disk, the diamagnetic coefficient remains constant upon rotation of the magnetic field. Along with our envelope function calculation accounting for excitonic effects, we demonstrate that the electron effective mass in wurtzite GaAs quantum disks is heavy, mostly isotropic and results from mixing of the two lower-energy conduction bands with Γ7 and Γ8 symmetries. Finally, we discuss the implications of the results of the angle dependent magneto-luminescence for the likely symmetry of the exciton states. This work provides important insight in the band structure of wurtzite GaAs for future nanowire-based polytypic bandgap engineering.
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- Pierre Corfdir
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge , J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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Lehmann S, Wallentin J, Jacobsson D, Deppert K, Dick KA. A general approach for sharp crystal phase switching in InAs, GaAs, InP, and GaP nanowires using only group V flow. NANO LETTERS 2013; 13:4099-105. [PMID: 23902379 DOI: 10.1021/nl401554w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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III-V-based nanowires usually exhibit random mixtures of wurtzite (WZ) and zinc blende (ZB) crystal structure, and pure crystal phase wires represent the exception rather than the rule. In this work, the effective group V hydride flow was the only growth parameter which was changed during MOVPE growth to promote transitions from WZ to ZB and from ZB to WZ. Our technique works in the same way for all investigated III-Vs (GaP, GaAs, InP, and InAs), with low group V flow for WZ and high group V flow for ZB conditions. This strongly suggests a common underlying mechanism. It displays to our best knowledge the simplest changes of the growth condition to control the nanowire crystal structure. The inherent reduction of growth variables is a crucial requirement for the interpretation in the frame of existing understanding of polytypism in III-V nanowires. We show that the change in surface energetics of the vapor-liquid-solid system at the vapor-liquid and liquid-solid interface is likely to control the crystal structure in our nanowires.
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- Sebastian Lehmann
- Solid State Physics, Lund University , Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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