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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/11/113021
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- National Key Basic Research Program of China [2011CB925603]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [61290305, 91021020, 61275108]
- Bissell Distinguished Professorship
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The heterostructures of (zinc-blende)-CdTe/(rock-salt)-PbTe are typically found to have their common cubic axes aligned to each other, as in the case of PbTe quantum dots embedded in a CdTe matrix. In this work, we perform both theoretical and experimental studies on the CdTe/PbTe heterostructure in a different geometry: a planar CdTe/PbTe (111) heterostructure. We simulate the epitaxial growth of CdTe (PbTe) on the (111) PbTe (CdTe) substrate, using a density-functional theory. A twisted CdTe/PbTe (111) interface structure has been predicted in the layer-by-layer epitaxial growth on the (111) substrate, in contrast to the non-twisted CdTe/PbTe (111) interface reported in the literature. This predicted structure has been confirmed experimentally in the heterostructure grown by molecular beam epitaxy, using a high-resolution transmission electron microscope. The twisted interface has a lower binding energy than the non-twisted one, indicating that the twisted structure is a metastable phase formed in the non-equilibrium growth process. Additionally, the interface reconstructions of the CdTe/PbTe (111) heterostructure observed by reflection high-energy electron diffraction are explained using the twisted interface model.
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