Published August 18, 2014 | Version v1
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Growth and characterization of dilute nitride GaNxP1−x nanowires and GaNxP1−x/GaNyP1−y core/shell nanowires on Si (111) by gas source molecular beam epitaxy

  • 1. Graduate Program of Material Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping (Sweden)
  • 4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju 500-712 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 5. Department of Electronic Engineering, LED-IT Fusion Technology Research Center, Yeungnam University, Daegu 712-749 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 6. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037 (United States)

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We have demonstrated self-catalyzed GaNxP1−x and GaNxP1−x/GaNyP1−y core/shell nanowire growth by gas-source molecular beam epitaxy. The growth window for GaNxP1−x nanowires was observed to be comparable to that of GaP nanowires (∼585 °C to ∼615 °C). Transmission electron microscopy showed a mixture of cubic zincblende phase and hexagonal wurtzite phase along the [111] growth direction in GaNxP1−x nanowires. A temperature-dependent photoluminescence (PL) study performed on GaNxP1−x/GaNyP1−y core/shell nanowires exhibited an S-shape dependence of the PL peaks. This suggests that at low temperature, the emission stems from N-related localized states below the conduction band edge in the shell, while at high temperature, the emission stems from band-to-band transition in the shell as well as recombination in the GaNxP1−x core.

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Journal Title
Applied Physics Letters
Journal Volume
105
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 072107-072107.5
ISSN
0003-6951
CODEN
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