Electronic structures of [001]- and [111]-oriented InSb and GaSb   free-standing nanowires

doi:10.1063/1.4929412

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	Electronic structures of [001]- and [111]-oriented InSb and GaSb free-standing nanowires
	Liao, Gaohua ; Luo, Ning ; Yang, Zhihu ; Chen, Keqiu ; Xu, H. Q.
刊名	JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
	2015
关键词	FIELD-EFFECT-TRANSISTORS BIAS CONDUCTANCE PEAK INTERLAYER DIFFUSION HYBRID DEVICE QUANTUM DOTS SEMICONDUCTORS PARAMETERS EPITAXY GAAS
DOI	10.1063/1.4929412
英文摘要	We report on a theoretical study of the electronic structures of InSb and GaSb nanowires oriented along the [001] and [111] crystallographic directions. The nanowires are described by atomistic, tight-binding models, including spin-orbit interaction. The band structures and the wave functions of the nanowires are calculated by means of a Lanczos iteration algorithm. For the [001]-oriented InSb and GaSb nanowires, the systems with both square and rectangular cross sections are considered. Here, it is found that all the energy bands are doubly degenerate. Although the lowest conduction bands in these nanowires show good parabolic dispersions, the top valence bands show rich and complex structures. In particular, the topmost valence bands of the nanowires with a square cross section show a double maximum structure. In the nanowires with a rectangular cross section, this double maximum structure is suppressed, and the top valence bands gradually develop into parabolic bands as the aspect ratio of the cross section is increased. For the [111]-oriented InSb and GaSb nanowires, the systems with hexagonal cross sections are considered. It is found that all the bands at the Gamma-point are again doubly degenerate. However, some of them will split into non-degenerate bands when the wave vector moves away from the Gamma-point. Although the lowest conduction bands again show good parabolic dispersions, the topmost valence bands do not show the double maximum structure. Instead, they show a single maximum structure with its maximum at a wave vector slightly away from the Gamma-point. The wave functions of the band states near the band gaps of the [001]-and [111]-oriented InSb and GaSb nanowires are also calculated and are presented in terms of probability distributions in the cross sections. It is found that although the probability distributions of the band states in the [001]-oriented nanowires with a rectangular cross section could be qualitatively described by one-band effective mass theory, the probability distributions of the band states in the [001]-oriented nanowires with a square cross section and the [111]oriented nanowires with a hexagonal cross section show characteristic patterns with symmetries closely related to the irreducible representations of the relevant double point groups and, in general, go beyond the prediction of a simple one-band effective mass theory. We also investigate the effects of quantum confinement on the band structures of the [001]-and [111]-oriented InSb and GaSb nanowires and present an empirical formula for the description of quantization energies of the band edge states in the nanowires, which could be used to estimate the enhancement of the band gaps of the nanowires as a result of quantum confinement. The size dependencies of the electron and hole effective masses in these nanowires are also investigated and discussed. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.; National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB932703, 2012CB932700]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [91221202, 91421303, 61321001]; Swedish Research Council (VR); SCI(E); EI; ARTICLE; hqxu@pku.edu.cn; 9; 118
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/416349]
专题	信息科学技术学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liao, Gaohua,Luo, Ning,Yang, Zhihu,et al. Electronic structures of [001]- and [111]-oriented InSb and GaSb free-standing nanowires[J]. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS,2015.
APA	Liao, Gaohua,Luo, Ning,Yang, Zhihu,Chen, Keqiu,&Xu, H. Q..(2015).Electronic structures of [001]- and [111]-oriented InSb and GaSb free-standing nanowires.JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS.
MLA	Liao, Gaohua,et al."Electronic structures of [001]- and [111]-oriented InSb and GaSb free-standing nanowires".JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS (2015).