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NANOSCALE
Volume 13, Issue 40, Pages 16952-16958Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1nr04263g
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A growth procedure has been proposed to produce nanowires with asymmetric cross-sections, which can significantly affect the polarization of quantum dot emission and increase the degree of linear polarization; the current growth protocol is fully compatible with the applications of HA NWs, covering a wide range of devices.
Nanowire (NW)-based opto-electronic devices require certain engineering in the NW geometry to realize polarized-dependent light sources and photodetectors. We present a growth procedure to produce InAs/InP quantum dot-nanowires (QD-NWs) with an elongated top-view cross-section relying on the vapor-liquid-solid method using molecular beam epitaxy. By interrupting the rotation of the sample during the radial growth sequence of the InP shell, hexagonal asymmetric (HA) NWs with long/short cross-section axes were obtained instead of the usual symmetrical shape. Polarization-resolved photoluminescence measurements have revealed a significant influence of the asymmetric shaped NWs on the InAs QD emission polarization with the photons being mainly polarized parallel to the NW long cross-section axis. A degree of linear polarization (DLP) up to 91% is obtained, being at the state of the art for the reported DLP values from QD-NWs. More importantly, the growth protocol herein is fully compatible with the current applications of HA NWs covering a wide range of devices such as polarized light emitting diodes and photodetectors.
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