Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Widely tunable GaAs bandgap via strain engineering in core/shell nanowires with large lattice mismatch

  • Leila Balaghi,
  • Genziana Bussone,
  • Raphael Grifone,
  • René Hübner,
  • Jörg Grenzer,
  • Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl,
  • Arkady V. Krasheninnikov,
  • Harald Schneider,
  • Manfred Helm,
  • Emmanouil Dimakis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10654-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

Read online

Designing core/shell nanowires with desired optoelectronic properties of III-V semiconductor alloys remains a challenge. Here, the authors report an engineering strategy to surmount strain-induced difficulties in the growth achieving highly strained cores with a sizeable change in their band gap.