Morphological engineering of self-assembled nanostructures at nanoscale on faceted GaAs nanowires by droplet epitaxy

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• 作者：Guo-Wei Zha ; Li-Chun Zhang ; Ying Yu ; Jian-Xing Xu…
• 关键词：Droplet epitaxy ; Nanostructures ; Morphology ; Nanowires
• 刊名：Nanoscale Research Letters
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：10
• 期：1
• 全文大小：2,464 KB
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• 刊物主题：Nanotechnology; Nanotechnology and Microengineering; Nanoscale Science and Technology; Nanochemistry; Molecular Medicine;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1556-276X

文摘

Fabrication of advanced artificial nanomaterials is a long-term pursuit to fulfill the promises of nanomaterials and it is of utter importance to manipulate materials at nanoscale to meet urgent demands of nanostructures with designed properties. Herein, we demonstrate the morphological tailoring of self-assembled nanostructures on faceted GaAs nanowires (NWs). The NWs are deposited on different kinds of substrates. Triangular and hexagonal prism morphologies are obtained, and their corresponding {110} sidewalls act as platforms for the nucleation of gallium droplets (GDs). We demonstrate that the morphologies of the nanostructures depend not only on the annealing conditions but also on the morphologies of the NWs' sidewalls. Here, we achieve morphological engineering in the form of novel quantum dots (QDs), ‘square-quantum rings (QRs), ‘rectangular-QRs, 3D QRs, crescent-shaped QRs, and nano-antidots. The evolution mechanisms for the peculiar morphologies of both NWs and nanostructures are modeled and discussed in detail. This work shows the potential of combining nano-structural engineering with NWs to achieve multifunctional properties and applications.