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Dubrovskii VG, Sibirev NV, Sokolovskii AS. Kinetic broadening of size distribution in terms of natural versus invariant variables. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:012112. [PMID: 33601594 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.012112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We study theoretically the size distributions of nanoparticles (islands, droplets, nanowires) whose time evolution obeys the kinetic rate equations with size-dependent condensation and evaporation rates. Different effects are studied which contribute to the size distribution broadening, including kinetic fluctuations, evaporation, nucleation delay, and size-dependent growth rates. Under rather general assumptions, an analytic form of the size distribution is obtained in terms of the natural variable s which equals the number of monomers in the nanoparticle. Green's function of the continuum rate equation is shown to be Gaussian, with the size-dependent variance. We consider particular examples of the size distributions in either linear growth systems (at a constant supersaturation) or classical nucleation theory with pumping (at a time-dependent supersaturation) and compare the spectrum broadening in terms of s versus the invariant variable ρ for which the regular growth rate is size independent. For the growth rate scaling with s as s^{α} (with the growth index α between 0 and 1), the size distribution broadens for larger α in terms of s, while it narrows with α if presented in terms of ρ. We establish the conditions for obtaining a time-invariant size distribution over a given variable for different growth laws. This result applies for a wide range of systems and shows how the growth method can be optimized to narrow the size distribution over a required variable, for example, the volume, surface area, radius or length of a nanoparticle. An analysis of some concrete growth systems is presented from the viewpoint of the obtained results.
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- Vladimir G Dubrovskii
- St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Embankment 13B, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Embankment 13B, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Berdnikov Y, Ilkiv I, Sibirev N, Ubyivovk E, Bouravleuv A. Comparison of GaAs nanowire growth seeded by Ag and Au colloidal nanoparticles on silicon. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2020; 31:374005. [PMID: 32460266 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab96e1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We present a comparative study of GaAs nanowire growth on Si(111) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy with the assistance of Au and Ag colloidal nanoparticles. Our approach allows the synthesis of nanowires with different catalyst materials in separate sectors of the same substrate within the same epitaxial process. We match the experimental results to the modeling of chemical potentials and nanowire length distributions to analyze the impact of silicon incorporation into the catalyst droplets on the growth rates and size homogeneity in ensembles of Au- and Ag-catalyzed GaAs nanowires.
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- Yury Berdnikov
- ITMO University, Kronverkskiy 49, St. Petersburg, 197101 Russia
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- St. Petersburg Academic University, Khlopina 8/3, St. Petersburg, 194021 Russia
- St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya emb. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034 Russia
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- St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya emb. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034 Russia
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- ITMO University, Kronverkskiy 49, St. Petersburg, 197101 Russia
- St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya emb. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034 Russia
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- St. Petersburg Academic University, Khlopina 8/3, St. Petersburg, 194021 Russia
- St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Prof. Popova 5, St. Petersburg, 197376 Russia
- Institute for Analytical Instrumentation RAS, Ivana Chernykh 31-33, St. Petersburg, 198095 Russia
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Arif O, Zannier V, Dubrovskii VG, Shtrom IV, Rossi F, Beltram F, Sorba L. Growth of Self-Catalyzed InAs/InSb Axial Heterostructured Nanowires: Experiment and Theory. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 10:nano10030494. [PMID: 32164178 PMCID: PMC7153585 DOI: 10.3390/nano10030494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Revised: 02/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The growth mechanisms of self-catalyzed InAs/InSb axial nanowire heterostructures are thoroughly investigated as a function of the In and Sb line pressures and growth time. Some interesting phenomena are observed and analyzed. In particular, the presence of In droplet on top of InSb segment is shown to be essential for forming axial heterostructures in the self-catalyzed vapor-liquid-solid mode. Axial versus radial growth rates of InSb segment are investigated under different growth conditions and described within a dedicated model containing no free parameters. It is shown that widening of InSb segment with respect to InAs stem is controlled by the vapor-solid growth on the nanowire sidewalls rather than by the droplet swelling. The In droplet can even shrink smaller than the nanowire facet under Sb-rich conditions. These results shed more light on the growth mechanisms of self-catalyzed heterostructures and give clear route for engineering the morphology of InAs/InSb axial nanowire heterostructures for different applications.
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- Omer Arif
- NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze—CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; (O.A.); (F.B.); (L.S.)
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- NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze—CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; (O.A.); (F.B.); (L.S.)
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- School of Photonics, ITMO University, Kronverkskiy pr. 49, 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia;
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- The Faculty of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Emb. 13B, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia;
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- IMEM—CNR, Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, I-43124 Parma, Italy
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- NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze—CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; (O.A.); (F.B.); (L.S.)
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- NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze—CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; (O.A.); (F.B.); (L.S.)
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Dubrovskii VG, Barcus J, Kim W, Vukajlovic-Plestina J, I Morral AF. Does desorption affect the length distributions of nanowires? NANOTECHNOLOGY 2019; 30:475604. [PMID: 31416057 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab3bb6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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State-of-the art models for statistical properties within the nanowire ensembles consider influx of precursors, reflection and surface diffusion of adatoms. These models predict a delay in the nanowire growth start and the evolution toward an asymmetric length distribution. We demonstrate here the effect of desorption of the nanowire material, which has not been considered so far in studies of the nanowire length distributions. We show that at the very beginning of growth the length distribution should be asymmetric due to the slow nucleation of nanowires. At longer times, the length distribution acquires a symmetric Gaussian shape due to the increased weight of desorption. The width of this distribution is larger than Poissonian and increases for higher ratio of desorption over deposition rate. Our model is consistent with the length evolution of organized self-catalyzed GaAs nanowires. We outline that desorption of the nanowire material should be minimized to achieve arrays of highly identical nanowires. These results are relevant for a wide variety of material systems.
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- V G Dubrovskii
- ITMO University, Kronverkskiy pr. 49, 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Zannier V, Rossi F, Ercolani D, Sorba L. Growth dynamics of InAs/InP nanowire heterostructures by Au-assisted chemical beam epitaxy. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2019; 30:094003. [PMID: 30537697 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aaf7ab] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The steady-state chemical composition of the In/Au alloy nanoparticles (NPs) during isothermal growth of Au-assisted InAs and InP nanowires (NWs) is different for the two materials. Therefore, when switching from one material to the other, to grow axial NW heterostructures, transient effects dominate during the time period of the NP reconfiguration. As a consequence, the precise control of the thickness of thin InP and InAs segments, which is fundamental for the realization of quantum dot (QD) structures and superlattices, can be very challenging. In this work, we present a study of the thickness/diameter dependence of two InP barriers and of the InAs short segment in between (QD), inserted into InAs NWs grown by means of Au-assisted chemical beam epitaxy. We found a broad variability of the InP segment thickness within the same as-grown sample, resulting in InAs NWs with asymmetric and non-homogeneous InP barriers. We explain the results by considering the NP reconfiguration dynamics which dominates at the early stages of the growth in both growth sequences. Moreover, we propose a strategy to control the growth rate and the dynamics of the barriers, by forcing the NP reconfiguration before starting the InP growth. This allows for the realization of InAs/InP NW heterostructures of different diameters, all having symmetric InP barriers with well controlled thickness, which are crucial parameters for the realization of advanced electronic quantum devices.
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- Valentina Zannier
- NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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Dubrovskii VG. Analytic form of the size distribution in irreversible growth of nanoparticles. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:012105. [PMID: 30780295 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.012105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We study theoretically the size distributions of nanoparticles (surface islands, droplets, molecular chains, and semiconductor nanowires) which grow without decay and with arbitrary size and time-dependent growth rates. Using a special transformation of variables, the analytic Green's function is obtained in the form of a Gaussian the variance of which is determined by the size dependence of the growth rate k(s). In the case of the power-law growth rates k(s)=(a+s)^{α}, the explicit formulas for the expectation and variance are given that contain earlier results in the limiting regimes. In the case of heterogeneous nucleation in a closed system, by convoluting Green's function with the exponential nucleation rate, we find an analytic size distribution which takes into account a delay in forming the smallest dimer and shows how it affects the distribution shapes. The recently discovered sub-Poissonian narrowing of the size distribution by nucleation antibunching is also included in the treatment. We briefly consider the length distribution of vapor-liquid-solid nanowires in the context of the obtained results. Overall, simple analytic size distributions obtained here under rather general assumptions may be useful for understanding and modeling statistical properties of different growth systems.
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Alanis JA, Lysevych M, Burgess T, Saxena D, Mokkapati S, Skalsky S, Tang X, Mitchell P, Walton AS, Tan HH, Jagadish C, Parkinson P. Optical Study of p-Doping in GaAs Nanowires for Low-Threshold and High-Yield Lasing. NANO LETTERS 2019; 19:362-368. [PMID: 30525674 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Semiconductor nanowires suffer from significant non-radiative surface recombination; however, heavy p-type doping has proven to be a viable option to increase the radiative recombination rate and, hence, quantum efficiency of emission, allowing the demonstration of room-temperature lasing. Using a large-scale optical technique, we have studied Zn-doped GaAs nanowires to understand and quantify the effect of doping on growth and lasing properties. We measure the non-radiative recombination rate ( knr) to be (0.14 ± 0.04) ps-1 by modeling the internal quantum efficiency (IQE) as a function of doping level. By applying a correlative method, we identify doping and nanowire length as key controllable parameters determining lasing behavior, with reliable room-temperature lasing occurring for p ≳ 3 × 1018 cm-3 and lengths of ≳4 μm. We report a best-in-class core-only near-infrared nanowire lasing threshold of ∼10 μJ cm-2, and using a data-led filtering step, we present a method to simply identify subsets of nanowires with over 90% lasing yield.
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- The Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics , Imperial College London , London SW7 2AZ , United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy and the Institute for Compound Semiconductors , Cardiff University , Cardiff , CF10 3AT , United Kingdom
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Tauchnitz T, Berdnikov Y, Dubrovskii VG, Schneider H, Helm M, Dimakis E. A simple route to synchronized nucleation of self-catalyzed GaAs nanowires on silicon for sub-Poissonian length distributions. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2018; 29:504004. [PMID: 30240362 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aae361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We demonstrate a simple route to grow ensembles of self-catalyzed GaAs nanowires with a remarkably narrow statistical distribution of lengths on natively oxidized Si(111) substrates. The fitting of the nanowire length distribution (LD) with a theoretical model reveals that the key requirements for narrow LDs are the synchronized nucleation of all nanowires on the substrate and the absence of beam shadowing from adjacent nanowires. Both requirements are fulfilled by controlling the size and number density of the openings in SiO x , where the nanowires nucleate. This is achieved by using a pre-growth treatment of the substrate with Ga droplets and two annealing cycles. The narrowest nanowire LDs are markedly sub-Poissonian, which validates the theoretical predictions about temporally anti-correlated nucleation events in individual nanowires, the so-called nucleation antibunching. Finally, the reproducibility of sub-Poissonian LDs attests the reliability of our growth method.
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- Tina Tauchnitz
- Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, D-01328 Dresden, Germany. Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
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Koivusalo E, Hakkarainen T, Guina M. Structural Investigation of Uniform Ensembles of Self-Catalyzed GaAs Nanowires Fabricated by a Lithography-Free Technique. NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2017; 12:192. [PMID: 28314359 PMCID: PMC5355414 DOI: 10.1186/s11671-017-1989-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 03/09/2017] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Structural analysis of self-catalyzed GaAs nanowires (NWs) grown on lithography-free oxide patterns is described with insight on their growth kinetics. Statistical analysis of templates and NWs in different phases of the growth reveals extremely high-dimensional uniformity due to a combination of uniform nucleation sites, lack of secondary nucleation of NWs, and self-regulated growth under the effect of nucleation antibunching. Consequently, we observed the first evidence of sub-Poissonian GaAs NW length distributions. The high phase purity of the NWs is demonstrated using complementary transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and high-resolution X-ray diffractometry (HR-XRD). It is also shown that, while NWs are to a large extent defect-free with up to 2-μm-long twin-free zincblende segments, low-temperature micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy reveals that the proportion of structurally disordered sections can be detected from their spectral properties.
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- Eero Koivusalo
- Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 3, FI-33720, Tampere, Finland.
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- Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 3, FI-33720, Tampere, Finland
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- Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 3, FI-33720, Tampere, Finland
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Koivusalo ES, Hakkarainen TV, Guina MD, Dubrovskii VG. Sub-Poissonian Narrowing of Length Distributions Realized in Ga-Catalyzed GaAs Nanowires. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:5350-5355. [PMID: 28782958 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Herein, we present experimental data on the record length uniformity within the ensembles of semiconductor nanowires. The length distributions of Ga-catalyzed GaAs nanowires obtained by cost-effective lithography-free technique on silicon substrates systematically feature a pronounced sub-Poissonian character. For example, nanowires with the mean length ⟨L⟩ of 2480 nm show a length distribution variance of only 367 nm2, which is more than twice smaller than the Poisson variance h⟨L⟩ of 808 nm2 for this mean length (with h = 0.326 nm as the height of GaAs monolayer). For 5125 nm mean length, the measured variance is 1200 nm2 against 1671 nm2 for Poisson distribution. A supporting model to explain the experimental findings is proposed. We speculate that the fluctuation-induced broadening of the length distribution is suppressed by nucleation antibunching, the effect which is commonly observed in individual vapor-liquid-solid nanowires but has never been seen for their ensembles. Without kinetic fluctuations, the two remaining effects contributing to the length distribution width are the nucleation randomness for nanowires emerging from the substrate and the shadowing effect on long enough nanowires. This explains an interesting time evolution of the variance that saturates after a short incubation stage but then starts increasing again due to shadowing, remaining, however, smaller than the Poisson value for a sufficiently long time.
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- Eero S Koivusalo
- Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology , Korkeakoulunkatu 3, FI 33720 Tampere, Finland
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- Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology , Korkeakoulunkatu 3, FI 33720 Tampere, Finland
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- Optoelectronics Research Centre, Tampere University of Technology , Korkeakoulunkatu 3, FI 33720 Tampere, Finland
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- ITMO University , Kronverkskiy pr. 49, 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia
- St. Petersburg Academic University , Khlopina 8/3, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
- Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Politekhnicheskaya 26, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Di Carlo V, Prete P, Dubrovskii VG, Berdnikov Y, Lovergine N. CdTe Nanowires by Au-Catalyzed Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:4075-4082. [PMID: 28613888 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We report on the first Au-catalyzed growth of CdTe nanowires by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. The nanowires were obtained by a separate precursors flow process in which (i) di-isopropyl-telluride (iPr2Te) was first flowed through the reactor to ensure the formation of liquid Au-Te alloy droplets, and (ii) after purging with pure H2 to remove unreacted iPr2Te molecules from the vapor and the growth surface, (iii) dimethylcadmium (Me2Cd) was supplied to the vapor so that Cd atoms could enter the catalyst droplets, leading to nanowire self-assembly. CdTe nanowires were grown between 485 and 515 °C on (111)B-GaAs substrates, the latter preliminary deposited with a 2 μm thick (111)-oriented CdTe buffer layer onto which Au nanoparticles were provided. As-grown CdTe nanowires were vertical ([111]-aligned) straight segments of constant diameter and showed an Au-rich nanodroplet at their tips, the contact angle between the droplets and the nanowires being ∼130°. The nanowire axial growth rate appeared kinetics-limited with an activation energy ∼57 kcal/mol. However, the growth rate turned independent from the nanowire diameter. Present data are interpreted by a theoretical model explaining the nanowire growth through the diffusion transport of Te adatoms under the assumption that their growth occurs during the Me2Cd-flow process step. Low-temperature cathodoluminescence spectra recorded from single nanowires showed a well-resolved band-edge emission typical of zincblend CdTe along with a dominant band peaked at 1.539 eV.
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- Virginia Di Carlo
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento , Via Monteroni, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
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- Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi , Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Via Monteroni, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
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- St. Petersburg Academic University , Khlopina 8/3, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
- Ioffe Physical Technical Institute RAS , Politekhnicheskaya 26, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
- ITMO University , Kronverkskiy pr. 49, 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- St. Petersburg Academic University , Khlopina 8/3, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
- ITMO University , Kronverkskiy pr. 49, 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento , Via Monteroni, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
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Vukajlovic-Plestina J, Kim W, Dubrovski VG, Tütüncüoğlu G, Lagier M, Potts H, Friedl M, Fontcuberta I Morral A. Engineering the Size Distributions of Ordered GaAs Nanowires on Silicon. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:4101-4108. [PMID: 28613909 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Reproducible integration of III-V semiconductors on silicon can open new path toward CMOS compatible optoelectronics and novel design schemes in next generation solar cells. Ordered arrays of nanowires could accomplish this task, provided they are obtained in high yield and uniformity. In this work, we provide understanding on the physical factors affecting size uniformity in ordered GaAs arrays grown on silicon. We show that the length and diameter distributions in the initial stage of growth are not much influenced by the Poissonian fluctuation-induced broadening, but rather are determined by the long incubation stage. We also show that the size distributions are consistent with the double exponential shapes typical for macroscopic nucleation with a large critical length after which the nanowires grow irreversibly. The size uniformity is dramatically improved by increasing the As4 flux, suggesting a new path for obtaining highly uniform arrays of GaAs nanowires on silicon.
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- Jelena Vukajlovic-Plestina
- Laboratoire des Matériaux Semiconducteurs, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire des Matériaux Semiconducteurs, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- St. Petersburg Academic University , Khlopina 8/3, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
- Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Politekhnicheskaya 26, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
- ITMO University , Kronverkskiy pr. 49, 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Laboratoire des Matériaux Semiconducteurs, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire des Matériaux Semiconducteurs, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire des Matériaux Semiconducteurs, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire des Matériaux Semiconducteurs, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire des Matériaux Semiconducteurs, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Jurczak P, Zhang Y, Wu J, Sanchez AM, Aagesen M, Liu H. Ten-Fold Enhancement of InAs Nanowire Photoluminescence Emission with an InP Passivation Layer. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:3629-3633. [PMID: 28535064 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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In this Letter, we demonstrate that a significant improvement of optical performance of InAs nanowires can be achieved by capping the core InAs nanowires with a thin InP shell, which successfully passivates the surface states reducing the rate of nonradiative recombination. The improvements have been confirmed by detailed photoluminescence measurements, which showed up to a 10-fold increase in the intensity of room-temperature photoluminescence from the capped InAs/InP nanowires compared to the sample with core-only InAs nanowires. Moreover, the nanowires exhibit a high stability of total photoluminescence emission strength across temperature range from 10 to 300 K as a result of strong quantum confinement. These findings could be the key to successful implementation of InAs nanowires into optoelectronic devices.
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- Pamela Jurczak
- Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London , 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 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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- Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London , London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom
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Gomes UP, Ercolani D, Zannier V, Battiato S, Ubyivovk E, Mikhailovskii V, Murata Y, Heun S, Beltram F, Sorba L. Heterogeneous nucleation of catalyst-free InAs nanowires on silicon. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2017; 28:065603. [PMID: 28071603 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aa5252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We report on the heterogeneous nucleation of catalyst-free InAs nanowires on Si(111) substrates by chemical beam epitaxy. We show that nanowire nucleation is enhanced by sputtering the silicon substrate with energetic particles. We argue that particle bombardment introduces lattice defects on the silicon surface that serve as preferential nucleation sites. The formation of these nucleation sites can be controlled by the sputtering parameters, allowing the control of nanowire density in a wide range. Nanowire nucleation is accompanied by unwanted parasitic islands, but careful choice of annealing and growth temperature allows us to strongly reduce the relative density of these islands and to realize samples with high nanowire yield.
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- U P Gomes
- NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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Zi Y, Suslov S, Yang C. Understanding Self-Catalyzed Epitaxial Growth of III-V Nanowires toward Controlled Synthesis. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:1167-1173. [PMID: 28103043 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
The self-catalyzed growth of III-V nanowires has drawn plenty of attention due to the potential of integration in current Si-based technologies. The homoparticle-assisted vapor-liquid-solid growth mechanism has been demonstrated for self-catalyzed III-V nanowire growth. However, the understandings of the preferred growth sites of these nanowires are still limited, which obstructs the controlled synthesis and the applications of self-catalyzed nanowire arrays. Here, we experimentally demonstrated that thermally created pits could serve as the preferred sites for self-catalyzed InAs nanowire growth. On that basis, we performed a pregrowth annealing strategy to promote the nanowire density by enhancing the pits formation on the substrate surface and enable the nanowire growth on the substrate that was not capable to facilitate the growth. The discovery of the preferred self-catalyzed nanowire growth sites and the pregrowth annealing strategy have shown great potentials for controlled self-catalyzed III-V nanowire array growth with preferred locations and density.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yunlong Zi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, §Birck Nanotechnology Center, and ∥Department of Chemistry, Purdue University , West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, §Birck Nanotechnology Center, and ∥Department of Chemistry, Purdue University , West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Chen Yang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, §Birck Nanotechnology Center, and ∥Department of Chemistry, Purdue University , West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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