• V. G. Dubrovskii
  • T. Xu
  • A. Díaz Álvarez
  • S. R. Plissard
  • P. Caroff
  • F. Glas
  • B. Grandidier
Designing strategies to reach monodispersity in fabrication of semiconductor nanowire ensembles is essential for numerous applications. When Ga-catalyzed GaAs nanowire arrays are grown by molecular beam epitaxy with help of droplet-engineering, we observe a significant narrowing of the diameter distribution of the final nanowire array with respect to the size distribution of the initial Ga droplets. Considering that the droplet serves as a nonequilibrium reservoir of a group III metal, we develop a model that demonstrates a self-equilibration effect on the droplet size in self-catalyzed III-V nanowires. This effect leads to arrays of nanowires with a high degree of uniformity regardless of the initial conditions, while the stationary diameter can be further finely tuned by varying the spacing of the array pitch on patterned Si substrates.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5580-5584
Number of pages5
JournalNano Letters
Volume15
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Aug 2015

    Research areas

  • focusing effect, growth kinetics, III-V nanowires, self-catalyzed growth, silicon integration, size distribution

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