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Crystal Structure Induced Preferential Surface Alloying of Sb on Wurtzite/Zinc Blende GaAs Nanowires

Hjort, Martin LU orcid ; Kratzer, Peter ; Lehmann, Sebastian LU ; Patel, Sahil J. ; Dick, Kimberly A. LU ; Palmstrøm, Chris J. ; Timm, Rainer LU orcid and Mikkelsen, Anders LU (2017) In Nano Letters 17(6). p.3634-3640
Abstract

We study the surface diffusion and alloying of Sb into GaAs nanowires (NWs) with controlled axial stacking of wurtzite (Wz) and zinc blende (Zb) crystal phases. Using atomically resolved scanning tunneling microscopy, we find that Sb preferentially incorporates into the surface layer of the {110}-terminated Zb segments rather than the {1120}-terminated Wz segments. Density functional theory calculations verify the higher surface incorporation rate into the Zb phase and find that it is related to differences in the energy barrier of the Sb-for-As exchange reaction on the two surfaces. These findings demonstrate a simple processing-free route to compositional engineering at the monolayer level along NWs.

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GaAs, Sb-for-As exchange, STM, surface alloy, wurtzite
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Nano Letters
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17
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6
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7 pages
publisher
The American Chemical Society (ACS)
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  • pmid:28537733
  • scopus:85020745051
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1530-6984
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10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00806
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English
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  author       = {{Hjort, Martin and Kratzer, Peter and Lehmann, Sebastian and Patel, Sahil J. and Dick, Kimberly A. and Palmstrøm, Chris J. and Timm, Rainer and Mikkelsen, Anders}},
  issn         = {{1530-6984}},
  keywords     = {{GaAs; Sb-for-As exchange; STM; surface alloy; wurtzite}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{06}},
  number       = {{6}},
  pages        = {{3634--3640}},
  publisher    = {{The American Chemical Society (ACS)}},
  series       = {{Nano Letters}},
  title        = {{Crystal Structure Induced Preferential Surface Alloying of Sb on Wurtzite/Zinc Blende GaAs Nanowires}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00806}},
  doi          = {{10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00806}},
  volume       = {{17}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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