Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 82, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.035302
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- Russian Federal Agency for Science and Innovation [02.740.11.0383]
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- EU
- EPSRC [EP/G017301/1, EP/F029624/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G017301/1, EP/F029624/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We report on the Au-free molecular beam epitaxy growth of coherent GaAs nanowires directly on Si(111) substrates. The growth is catalyzed by liquid Ga droplets formed in the openings of a native oxide layer at the initial growth stage. Transmission electron microscopy studies demonstrate that the nanowires are single crystals having the zincblende structure along their length (apart from a thin wurtzite region directly below the Ga droplet), regardless of their diameter (70-80 nm) and the growth temperature range (560-630 degrees C). We attribute the observed phase purity to a much lower surface energy of liquid Ga than that of Au-Ga alloys, which makes triple line nucleation energetically unfavorable. The change in growth catalyst to a liquid metal with a lower energy suppresses the (more usual) formation of wurtzite nuclei on surface energetic grounds. These results can provide a distinct method for the fabrication of chemically pure and stacking-fault-free zincblende nanowires of III-V compounds on silicon.
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