Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 116-121Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl9029972
Keywords
Core-shell nanowires; dangling bond defect; Au impurity; electronic structure
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- Korea Research Foundation [KRF-2005-084-C00007]
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
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The origin of the ballistic hole gas recently observed in Ge/Si core-shell nanowires has not been clearly resolved yet, although it is thought to be the result of the band offset at the radial interface. Here we perform spin-polarized density-functional calculations to investigate the defect levels of surface dangling bonds and Au impurities in the Si shell. Without any doping strategy, we find that Si dangling bond and substitutional Air defects behave as charge traps, generating hole carriers in the Ge core, while their defect levels are very deep in one-component Si nanowires. The defect levels lie to within 10 meV from or below the valence band edge for nanowires with diameters larger than 33 A and the Ge fractions above 30%. As carriers are spatially separated from charge traps, scattering is greatly suppressed, leading to the ballistic conduction, in good agreement with experiments.
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