Modeling of Small Diameter Semiconductor Nanowires

• Authors: M. Bukała , M. Galicka , R. Buczko , P. Kacman
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The properties of very thin (up to 16Å diameter) wires, cut out from the bulk in either zinc-blende or wurtzite material, are studied theoretically. In the total energy calculations we use ab initio methods and consider three different crystallographic growth axes for the zinc-blende and one for the wurtzite structure. We show that the most stable zinc-blende nanowires are those growing along (111) direction, however, the wurtzite structure is found to be energetically more favorable than the zinc-blende for wires of the same diameter. In addition, the band structure of the wires was calculated.

Keywords

EN

73.21.Hb; 73.43.Cd; 73.61.Ey

Discipline

• 73.61.Ey: III-V semiconductors
• 73.21.Hb: Quantum wires
• 73.43.Cd: Theory and modeling

• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 112
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 425-430

Dates

published

2007-08

received

2007-06-09

Contributors

author

M. Bukała

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

author

M. Galicka

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

author

R. Buczko

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

author

P. Kacman

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.112.425