Surface Chemistry, Structure, and Electronic Properties from Microns to the Atomic Scale of Axially Doped Semiconductor Nanowires
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- 作者：Martin Hjort ; Jesper Wallentin ; Rainer Timm ; Alexei A. Zakharov ; Ulf H氓kanson ; Jesper N. Andersen ; Edvin Lundgren ; Lars Samuelson ; Magnus T. Borgstr枚m ; Anders Mikkelsen
- 刊名：ACS Nano
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：November 27, 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：6
- 期：11
- 页码：9679-9689
- 全文大小：645K
- 年卷期：v.6,no.11(November 27, 2012)
- ISSN：1936-086X
文摘
Using both synchrotron-based photoemission electron microscopy/spectroscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy, we obtain a complete picture of the surface composition, morphology, and electronic structure of InP nanowires. Characterization is done at all relevant length scales from micrometer to nanometer. We investigate nanowire surfaces with native oxide and molecular adsorbates resulting from exposure to ambient air. Atomic hydrogen exposure at elevated temperatures which leads to the removal of surface oxides while leaving the crystalline part of the wire intact was also studied. We show how surface chemical composition will seriously influence nanowire electronic properties. However, opposite to, for example, Ge nanowires, water or sulfur molecules adsorbed on the exterior oxidized surfaces are of less relevance. Instead, it is the final few atomic layers of the oxide which plays the most significant role by strongly negatively doping the surface. The InP nanowires in air are rather insensitive to their chemical surroundings in contrast to what is often assumed for nanowires. Our measurements allow us to draw a complete energy diagram depicting both band gap and differences in electron affinity across an axial nanowire p-n junction. Our findings thus give a robust set of quantitative values relating surface chemical composition to specific electronic properties highly relevant for simulating the performance of nanoscale devices.