Strongly polarized quantum-dot-like light emitters embedded in GaAs/GaNAs core/shell nanowires

Recent developments in fabrication techniques and extensive investigations of the physical properties of IIIV semiconductor nanowires (NWs), such as GaAs NWs, have demonstrated their potential for a multitude of advanced electronic and photonics applications. Alloying of GaAs with nitrogen can furth...

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Published in:Nanoscale 2016-09, Vol.8 (35), p.15939-15947
Main Authors: Filippov, S, Jansson, M, Stehr, J. E, Palisaitis, J, Persson, P. O, Ishikawa, F, Chen, W. M, Buyanova, I. A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Confining
core/shell structures
defects
Electronics
Formations
Gallium arsenide
GaNAs
light emission
Nanostructure
Nanowires
Nitrogen
polarization
Qunatum dots
Semiconductors
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Summary:Recent developments in fabrication techniques and extensive investigations of the physical properties of IIIV semiconductor nanowires (NWs), such as GaAs NWs, have demonstrated their potential for a multitude of advanced electronic and photonics applications. Alloying of GaAs with nitrogen can further enhance the performance and extend the device functionality via intentional defects and heterostructure engineering in GaNAs and GaAs/GaNAs coaxial NWs. In this work, it is shown that incorporation of nitrogen in GaAs NWs leads to formation of three-dimensional confining potentials caused by short-range fluctuations in the nitrogen composition, which are superimposed on long-range alloy disorder. The resulting localized states exhibit a quantum-dot like electronic structure, forming optically active states in the GaNAs shell. By directly correlating the structural and optical properties of individual NWs, it is also shown that formation of the localized states is efficient in pure zinc-blende wires and is further facilitated by structural polymorphism. The light emission from these localized states is found to be spectrally narrow (50130 eV) and is highly polarized (up to 100%) with the preferable polarization direction orthogonal to the NW axis, suggesting a preferential orientation of the localization potential. These properties of self-assembled nano-emitters embedded in the GaNAs-based nanowire structures may be attractive for potential optoelectronic applications. Incorporation of nitrogen in GaAs nanowires causes the formation of optically active localized states with a quantum-dot like electronic structure.
ISSN:2040-3364
2040-3372
2040-3372
DOI:10.1039/c6nr05168e