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Droplet manipulation and horizontal growth of high-quality self-catalysed GaAsP nanowires

Zhang, Y; Sanchez, AM; Aagesen, M; Fonseka, HA; Huo, S; Liu, H; (2020) Droplet manipulation and horizontal growth of high-quality self-catalysed GaAsP nanowires. Nano Today , 34 , Article 100921. 10.1016/j.nantod.2020.100921. Green open access

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Abstract

Self-catalyzed horizontal nanowires (NWs) can greatly simplify the CMOS integration processing compared with the regular vertical counterparts. However, self-catalyzed growth mode poses challenges in manipulating the droplets to produce single-crystalline horizontal NWs with a uniform diameter. Here, we demonstrated a novel method to manipulate the droplet through altering the droplet surface energy. Ga-droplet was successfully moved from top to sidewalls in GaAsP NWs by introducing Be and lowering the surface energy, and pinned at the tip despite the absence of planar defects. This can switch the <111> growth direction, with a successful rate of 100 %, from vertical to horizontal through the assistance of few sparse twins. The produced NWs tend to be bounded by low energy facets, which leads to the self-catalysed growth of horizontal NWs with a greatly improved diameter uniformity along the axis. Besides, the lowered surface energy can effectively suppress the wurtzite nucleation, producing pure zinc blende single-crystalline horizontal NWs. This study establishes an essential step toward the efficient integration of NWs into CMOS compatible devices.

Type: Article
Title: Droplet manipulation and horizontal growth of high-quality self-catalysed GaAsP nanowires
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.nantod.2020.100921
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nantod.2020.100921
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Horizontal nanowires; Self-catalyzed droplet; Surface energy
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > London Centre for Nanotechnology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10103232
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