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Designed Quasi-1D Potential Structures Realized in Compositionally Graded InAs1-xPx Nanowires.

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Summary, in English

III-V semiconductor heterostructures are important components of many solid-state optoelectronic devices, but the ability to control and tune the electrical and optical properties of these structures in conventional device geometries is fundamentally limited by the bulk dimensionality and the inability to accommodate lattice-mismatched material combinations. Here we demonstrate how semiconductor nanowires may enable the creation of arbitrarily shaped one-dimensional potential structures for new types of designed device functionality. We describe the controlled growth of stepwise compositionally graded InAs1-xPx heterostructures defined along the axes of InAs nanowires, and we show that nanowires with sawtooth-shaped composition profiles behave as near-ideal unipolar diodes with ratchet-like rectification of the electron transport through the nanowires, in excellent agreement with simulations. This new type of designed quasi-1D potential structure represents a significant advance in band gap engineering and may enable fundamental studies of low-dimensional hot-carrier dynamics, in addition to constituting a platform for implementing novel electronic and optoelectronic device concepts.

Publishing year

2016-01-20

Language

English

Publication/Series

Nano Letters

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

The American Chemical Society (ACS)

Topic

  • Nano Technology
  • Condensed Matter Physics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1530-6992