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NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 28, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/28/285603
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- Center for Excitonics, an Energy Frontier Research Center
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001088]
- MRSEC of National Science Foundation [DMR-0213282]
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The morphology, structure, and optical properties of gallium nitride (GaN) nanowires grown using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) on r-plane sapphire using gold and nickel seed particles were investigated. We found that different seed particles result in different growth rates and densities of structural defects in MOCVD-grown GaN nanowires. Ni-seeded GaN nanowires grow faster than Au-seeded ones, and they do not contain the basal plane stacking faults that are observed in Au-seeded GaN nanowires. We propose that stacking fault formation is related to the supersaturation and surface energies in different types of seed particles. Room temperature photoluminescence studies revealed a blue-shifted peak in Au-seeded GaN nanowires compared to the GaN near-bandgap emission. The blue-shifted peak evolves as a function of the growth time and originates from the nanowire base, likely due to strain and Al diffusion from the substrate. Our results demonstrate that seed particle composition has a direct impact on the growth, structure, and optical properties of GaN nanowires and reveal some general requirements for seed particle selection for the growth of compound semiconductor nanowires.
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