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Structural investigation of InAs/InGaAs/InP nanostructures: origin and stability of nanowires.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

L. Nieto ,
H. R. Gutiérrez ,
J. R. R. Bortoleto ,
R. Magalhães-Paniago  and
M. A. Cotta
L. Nieto
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, DFA/LPD, UNICAMP, CP 6165, 13081–970 Campinas-São Paulo, Brazil
H. R. Gutiérrez
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802–6300, USA
J. R. R. Bortoleto
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, DFA/LPD, UNICAMP, CP 6165, 13081–970 Campinas-São Paulo, Brazil
R. Magalhães-Paniago
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, UFMG, CP 702, CEP 30123–970, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
M. A. Cotta
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, DFA/LPD, UNICAMP, CP 6165, 13081–970 Campinas-São Paulo, Brazil
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Abstract

In this letter we present results on the growth of InAs nanowires (NW's) on InGaAs lattice-matched to (100) InP substrates by Chemical Beam Epitaxy. We observed that the nanostructure stability depends on the thickness of the InGaAs layer. This effect may result from two different conditions: the nanostructure strain field depth and/or compositional modulation in the buffer layer. Our investigation shows that anisotropic strain relaxation for nanowires grown on InGaAs is faster than for those grown on InP but the elastic energy in the nanostructures is no different from the InAs/InP case. These results suggest that the InAs strain relaxation does not depend significantly on the InGaAs buffer layer thickness. Nevertheless, transmission electron microscopy images show an additional stress field superimposed on that usually observed for the InAs nanostructures, which is attributed to compositional modulation in the ternary layer.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 829: Symposium B – Progress in Compound Semiconductor Materials IV – Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications , 2004 , B2.4
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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