Twin-Free GaAs Nanosheets by Selective Area Growth: Implications for Defect-Free Nanostructures
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- 作者：Chun-Yung Chi ; Chia-Chi Chang ; Shu Hu ; Ting-Wei Yeh ; Stephen B. Cronin ; P. Daniel Dapkus
- 刊名：Nano Letters
- 出版年：2013
- 出版时间：June 12, 2013
- 年：2013
- 卷：13
- 期：6
- 页码：2506-2515
- 全文大小：661K
- 年卷期：v.13,no.6(June 12, 2013)
- ISSN：1530-6992
文摘
Highly perfect, twin-free GaAs nanosheets grown on (111)B surfaces by selective area growth (SAG) are demonstrated. In contrast to GaAs nanowires grown by (SAG) in which rotational twins and stacking faults are almost universally observed, twin formation is either suppressed or eliminated within properly oriented nanosheets are grown under a range of growth conditions. A morphology transition in the nanosheets due to twinning results in surface energy reduction, which may also explain the high twin-defect density that occurs within some III鈥揤 semiconductor nanostructures, such as GaAs nanowires. Calculations suggest that the surface energy is significantly reduced by the formation of {111}-plane bounded tetrahedra after the morphology transition of nanowire structures. By contrast, owing to the formation of two vertical {11虆0} planes which comprise the majority of the total surface energy of nanosheet structures, the energy reduction effect due to the morphology transition is not as dramatic as that for nanowire structures. Furthermore, the surface energy reduction effect is mitigated in longer nanosheets which, in turn, suppresses twinning.