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Synthesis, morphological and electro-optical characterizations of metal/semiconductor nanowire heterostructures Markus Glaser, Andreas Kitzler, Andreas Johannes, Slawomir Prucnal, Heidi Potts, Sonia Conesa-Boj, Lidija Filipovic, Hans Kosina, Wolfgang Skorupa, Emmerich Bertagnolli, Carsten Ronning, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, and Alois Lugstein Nano Lett., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00315 • Publication Date (Web): 11 May 2016 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on May 13, 2016

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Processing and material characterization of Ga/GaAs/Si NW heterostructures. (a) Processing scheme: Epitaxial VLS-grown Si 〈111〉 NWs covered with 20 nm SiO2; Room temperature ion implantation of Ga and As (2 at% each) with samples mounted on a 45° tilted and rotating specimen holder; Formation of wired GaAs NCs after 20 ms FLA (54.2 J/cm2). (b) SEM image of a single Ga/GaAs/Si NW heterostructure with the respective µ-Raman spectrum acquired from the center of the GaAs NC (red arrow). Denoted peaks are identified as (I) GaAs TO: 272 cm-1, (II) GaAs surface phonon: 287 cm-1, (III) local vibrational modes of Si-doped GaAs: 360–410 cm-1, (IV) nano-crystalline Si: 487.5 cm-1 and (V) Si zone center phonon mode: 517.9 cm-1 (see Supplementary Information 3 for details). (c) SEM image of a Ga/GaAs/Si NW heterostructure with SiO2 shell and Si, Ga & As maps acquired from TEM-EDX analysis shown as a color overlay. HRTEM detail micrographs of the axial interfaces are shown in the right panel along with the respective fast Fourier transforms of the crystalline Si and GaAs and amorphous Ga segments in the insets. 88x46mm (300 x 300 DPI)

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Electrical characterization of selected NW heterostructures. (a) I/V characteristics of a processed Si NW without NCs (NW1), a Si NW heterostructure with a GaAs NC (NW2) and four Si NWs with Ga/GaAs NCs (NW3–NW6). Axial lengths of the GaAs NCs are for NW2: 124 nm (□), NW3: 136 nm (△), NW4: 180 nm (▽ ), NW5: 245 nm (×) and NW6: 469 nm (○). The inset shows the SEM image of NW6 with electrical contacts and the direction of the bias VSD applied to the source contact next to the Ga segment is depicted. The drain contact as well as the Si substrate is grounded. (b) Scatter diagram of |VSD| values of measured NW heterostructures under reverse bias at |IS| = 200 nA as a function of GaAs NC length with a linear fitting curve. 73x31mm (300 x 300 DPI)


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Simulated energy band diagrams. Band diagrams of a Ga/GaAs/Si heterostructure similar to NW4, calculated with the semi-classical device simulator Minimos-NT under reverse (left panel), zero (center panel) and forward (right panel) bias conditions. EV denotes the valence band maximum and EC the conduction band minimum. The Fermi level as well as the electron and hole quasi Fermi levels are denoted by EF, EF,n and EF,p, respectively. The heterojunctions were assumed to be defect-free and the work function of Ga was fixed to 4.3 eV.23 Under non-zero bias conditions, the main drift component of the current is sketched as electrons (Θ) entering the GaAs NC by tunneling through the Ga/GaAs Schottky junction (reverse bias) or the Si/GaAs heterojunction (forward bias). The cascade process responsible for generating electron-hole (+) pairs due to impact ionization of hot charge carriers is shown for the device operated under reverse bias. The inset shows the I/V characteristics of NW4 with marked operating points for the three bias conditions. 74x32mm (300 x 300 DPI)


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Room temperature EL of a Ga/GaAs/Si NW heterostructure device. (a) SEM image, showing the two-terminal device (NW4) with a Ga segment next to a 180 nm long GaAs NC. (b) Optical microscope image (1 minute exposure time) of the same device under reverse bias conditions (VSD = -9.4 V, IS = -4 µA) with visible EL originating from the GaAs NC. Spectral decomposition of the EL spot is due to artefacts of the imaging system. (c) Corrected EL spectra acquired from NW4 under forward bias (VSD = 4.85 V, IS = 8.3 µA) and reverse bias (VSD = -9.4 V, IS = -4 µA). Black curves are fittings according to Equation (1), representing luminescence ascribed to Bremsstrahlung. Under reverse bias, band-to-band EL is superimposed, whereas under forward bias only Bremsstrahlung can be seen at high field conditions. 66x25mm (300 x 300 DPI)


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EL spectra with designated transition energies. (a) Room temperature EL spectra obtained from NW3, NW5 and NW6 and the respective bias parameters. Vertical lines denote transition energies for the radiative b-b recombinations correlating with maxima in the presented EL spectra. (b) Sketch of the GaAs energy band structure between the Brillouin zone symmetry points L, Γ, X with the lowest conduction band, heavy-hole, light-hole as well as the split-off valence bands with the relevant energies obtained from ref. 28: EG = 1.42 eV, EL = 1.72 eV, EX = 1.91 eV, ESO = 0.34 eV. Radiative b-b recombinations identified by energy values of maxima in EL spectra of investigated NW devices are shown with colored arrows. Solid and dashed lines denote indirect (phonon-assisted) and direct transitions, respectively. 67x26mm (300 x 300 DPI)


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Synthesis, morphological and electro-optical

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characterizations of metal/semiconductor nanowire

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heterostructures

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Markus Glaser†, Andreas Kitzler†, Andreas Johannes‡, Slawomir Prucnal§, Heidi Potts║, Sonia

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Conesa-Boj║, Lidija Filipovic┴, Hans Kosina┴, Wolfgang Skorupa§, Emmerich Bertagnolli†,

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Carsten Ronning‡, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral║, Alois Lugstein†,*

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Institute of Solid State Electronics, TU Wien, Floragasse 7, 1040 Wien, Austria

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Institute for Solid State Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1,

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Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany

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1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

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Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-

Laboratoire des Matériaux Semiconducteurs, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,

Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien, Gußhausstraße 25-29, 1040 Wien, Austria

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KEYWORDS

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Nanowires, heterostructures, Schottky, GaAs, Si, electroluminescence

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ABSTRACT

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In this letter, we demonstrate the formation of unique Ga/GaAs/Si nanowire heterostructures,

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which were successfully implemented in nanoscale light-emitting devices with visible room

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temperature electroluminescence. Based on our recent approach for the integration of InAs/Si

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heterostructures into Si nanowires by ion implantation and flash lamp annealing, we developed a

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routine that has proven to be suitable for the monolithic integration of GaAs nanocrystallite

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segments into the core of silicon nanowires. The formation of a Ga segment adjacent to longer

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GaAs nanocrystallites resulted in Schottky-diode-like I/V characteristics with distinct

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electroluminescence originating from the GaAs nanocrystallite for the nanowire device operated

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in the reverse breakdown regime. The observed electroluminescence was ascribed to radiative

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band-to-band recombinations resulting in distinct emission peaks and a low contribution due to

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intraband transition, which were also observed under forward bias. Simulations of the obtained

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nanowire heterostructure confirmed the proposed impact ionization process responsible for hot

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carrier luminescence. This approach may enable a new route for on-chip photonic devices used

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for light emission or detection purposes.

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A successful implementation of a new class of materials or means of processing has a potential

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impact on long-term future technology nodes. Fundamental investigations of electronic and

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optical properties of nanowire (NW) heterostructures thus triggered tremendous research on 2 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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novel device concepts1–3. Particularly, integrating photonic devices into the Si platform is a

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challenge that requires the development of elaborate device designs4. Nanoscale Si-based

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photonic devices would provide full compatibility with mature IC manufacturing processes, yet

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owing to the inherent disadvantages of the indirect Si band gap, no efficient light emission can

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be obtained. A hybrid Si platform, integrating III–V functionality into Si nanostructures, would

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give access to a wide range of high-speed electronic and high-performance photonic

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applications. However, the diverse natures of the III–V and Si device approaches, material

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technologies and processing have posed a significant obstacle in the route for Si-based hybrid

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optoelectronic systems in the past. Within the last years, a few approaches for Si-based hybrid

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NW formation via bottom-up growth techniques5,6 or in combination with substrate etching7

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were presented, which are restricted to semiconductors, with limitations in epitaxial integration

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and in retaining the NW morphology. Recently, we published a novel approach for integrating

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III–V nano-crystallites (NCs) into Si NWs by combining ion implantation and flash lamp

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annealing, yielding InAs/Si NW heterostructures8. Within this study we present this approach to

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be capable for integrating GaAs NCs into crystalline Si NWs. Due to a modification of the ion

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implantation routine, NCs with increased axial lengths are obtained, exhibiting a metallic Ga

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segment adjacent to the GaAs NCs. Such wired NC configuration ensures directed current flow

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through the abrupt heterointerfaces.

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We achieved the monolithic integration of GaAs and Ga/GaAs NCs into Si NWs by exploring

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ion implantation and flash lamp annealing (FLA) routines. Such application of mature

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semiconductor processing techniques9 allows to process wafer-scale NW samples along with

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excellent control of NW morphologies. The main processing steps for NW heterostructure

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formation are sketched in Figure 1a.

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Figure 1. Processing and material characterization of Ga/GaAs/Si NW heterostructures. (a)

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Processing scheme: Epitaxial VLS-grown Si 〈111〉 NWs covered with 20 nm SiO2; Room

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temperature ion implantation of Ga and As (2 at% each) with samples mounted on a 45° tilted

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and rotating specimen holder; Formation of wired GaAs NCs after 20 ms FLA (54.2 J/cm2). (b)

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SEM image of a single Ga/GaAs/Si NW heterostructure with the respective µ-Raman spectrum

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acquired from the center of the GaAs NC (red arrow). Denoted peaks are identified as (I) GaAs

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TO: 272 cm-1, (II) GaAs surface phonon: 287 cm-1, (III) local vibrational modes of Si-doped

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GaAs: 360–410 cm-1, (IV) nano-crystalline Si: 487.5 cm-1 and (V) Si zone center phonon

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mode: 517.9 cm-1 (see Supporting Information 3 for details). (c) SEM image of a Ga/GaAs/Si

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NW heterostructure with SiO2 shell and Si, Ga & As maps acquired from TEM-EDX analysis

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shown as a color overlay. HRTEM detail micrographs of the axial interfaces are shown in the

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right panel along with the respective fast Fourier transforms of the crystalline zinc-blende Si and

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GaAs and amorphous Ga segments in the insets.


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The samples consisted of 〈111〉 oriented zinc-blende Si NWs epitaxially grown on Si(111)

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substrates via the gold-catalyzed vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) approach10. A low pressure chemical

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vapor deposition system was utilized for NW growth, using SiH4 (2% diluted in He) as precursor

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gas, a growth temperature of T = 788 K and a total pressure of p = 4 mbar, which resulted in

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epitaxial and single crystalline NWs with typical lengths of 10 µm and mean diameters of about

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130 nm. Prior to high fluence implantation of Ga and As ions, the gold catalyst was removed and

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a 20 nm thick SiO2 layer had to be deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition,

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acting as a protective mold during implantation and millisecond FLA. In order to achieve a

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homogeneous ion distribution and to avoid bending of the NWs due to high fluence ion

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bombardment11, samples were mounted on a 45° tilted stage and continuously rotated during ion

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implantation. Due to nanostructure-related peculiarities of ion beam induced sputtering,

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implantation parameters were derived from 3D Monte Carlo simulations using iradina12. Ga and

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As ions were implanted alternatingly, resulting in a nominal concentration of 2 at% Ga and 2

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at% As inside the NW core. Full amorphization and a significant shortening as well as a change

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of the NW cross-section from hexagonal to circular was observed due to plastic deformation of

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NWs during ion implantation13. Remarkably, the SiO2 shell was found to persist during

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implantation with little intermixing at the interface to the Si core (see Supporting Information 1).

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Finally the phase separation and actual formation of NW heterostructures by liquid phase epitaxy

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(LPE)14 was induced by a 3 minutes preheating at 600 °C and subsequent 20 ms FLA, whereby

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the SiO2 shell stabilized the molten core of the NWs. FLA was performed in Ar atmosphere with

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a flash energy of 54.2 J/cm², resulting in peak sample temperatures of approx. 1470 K.8 Within

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the cooling period after FLA, GaAs NCs formed with lengths varying from approx. 10 nm to 1


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µm (cf. Supporting Information 2). In addition, an adjacent Ga segment was observed for NCs

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exceeding a length of about 75 nm.

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The composition, morphology and crystallinity of such obtained NW heterostructures were

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analyzed in detail by µ-Raman spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and

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energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). Figure 1b shows a typical µ-Raman spectrum

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acquired from the GaAs NC depicted in the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image. The

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main Raman features were identified as the transverse optical (TO) phonon mode of crystalline

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GaAs (peak I), a GaAs related surface phonon mode due to the cylindrical shape of the GaAs NC

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(peak II)15 and GaAs local vibrational modes (peak III)16. The occurrence of GaAs local

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vibrational modes indicates a high concentration of Si atoms occupying Ga or As lattice sites. As

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the excitation laser spot exceeds the GaAs NC size, Raman features arising from the adjacent Si

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NW (peak IV, V) were also detected (see Supporting Information 3).

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Extensive high resolution TEM (HRTEM) and EDX analysis confirmed composition and

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crystallinity of both the Si and GaAs segments with abrupt interfaces as indicated by Raman

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investigations (see Supporting Information 4). Although a rapid annealing step was applied,

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consisting of melting of the NW core during the 20 ms FLA step and recrystallization during

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subsequent cooling, only a low number of crystallographic defects of the NW heterostructure

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were observed in TEM investigations (see Supporting Information 5). As mentioned above, for

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larger GaAs NCs we observed the formation of amorphous Ga segments, separating the GaAs

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NCs from the Si NW core. Previous investigations indicated a liquid state for nanoscale Ga

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droplets at room temperature17, which may also apply for the observed amorphous structure of

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the Ga segments. Further EDX revealed As within the recrystallized Si NWs, thus expecting n-

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type doping of the Si NW. In the HRTEM images of Figure 1c, the respective interfaces of the


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axially aligned Si/Ga/GaAs/Si segments are shown. Remarkably, the Si NWs, although fully

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amorphous after ion implantation, recrystallize in 〈111〉 directions along the NW axis during

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LPE, which is also the predominant growth direction for VLS-grown Si NWs with diameters

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above 40 nm.18 The embedded zinc-blende GaAs NCs adopt the crystallite direction of the Si

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NW as shown in the fast Fourier transform patterns in Figure 1c. Furthermore, the amorphous Ga

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segment formed next to larger GaAs NCs exhibits an abrupt interface to both the GaAs and the

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Si NWs.

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To determine the electrical transport properties of wired GaAs NCs embedded in Si NWs,

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individual NW heterostructures were integrated in four-terminal as well as two-terminal (cf. inset

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in Figure 2a) devices resembling a back-gated NW field effect transistor with a 120 nm thick

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SiO2 layer as gate dielectric and the substrate as common gate. Electrical contacts to nanowire

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devices were processed by e-beam lithography, e-beam evaporation of Ni and lift off techniques.

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Figure 2. Electrical characterization of selected NW heterostructures. (a) I/V characteristics of

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a processed Si NW without NCs (NW1), a Si NW heterostructure with a GaAs NC (NW2) and

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four Si NWs with Ga/GaAs NCs (NW3–NW6). Axial lengths of the GaAs NCs are for NW2:


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124 nm (□), NW3: 136 nm (∆), NW4: 180 nm (∇), NW5: 245 nm (×) and NW6: 469 nm (○).

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VSD applied to the source contact next to the Ga segment is depicted. The drain contact as well as

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the Si substrate is grounded. (b) Scatter diagram of |VSD| values of measured NW

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heterostructures under reverse bias at |IS| = 200 nA as a function of GaAs NC length with a linear

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fitting curve.

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The I/V characteristics of a contacted Si NW without a NC exhibits linear behavior (NW1 in

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Figure 2a) and four-terminal measurements revealed a resistivity of 1.1 mΩcm. Unambiguously

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n-type doping was confirmed by thermoelectric measurements on individually contacted Si NWs

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(see Supporting Information 6). Assuming As as the dopant, this corresponds to a bulk impurity

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concentration of approx. 8.6 × 1019 cm-3 and thus degenerate doping of the Si NWs19. Due to the

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high doping of the Si NW and the present SiO2 shell, influences of surface states or adsorbates

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on the electronic structure of the NW core were assumed to be negligible. Furthermore, the low

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resistivity of the Si NWs impeded the use of capacity-dependent scanning probe microscopy to

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investigate NW doping.

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For the NWs with GaAs NCs and Ga/GaAs hybrids, no such direct experimental determination

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of the doping type could be achieved. However, as GaAs grown from a Si-rich high temperature

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melt by LPE results in n-type GaAs crystals20, n-type doping was also assumed to be prevailing

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in the present GaAs NCs. Furthermore, rectifying Ga/GaAs contacts only form with n-type

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GaAs21, which agrees well with the Schottky-type behavior of the Ga/GaAs heterostructures

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(NW3–NW6 in Figure 2a). The resistivity of the GaAs NCs was measured to be approx. 6 Ωcm

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However, Raman investigations (cf. Supporting Information 3) indicate considerably higher Si

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impurity concentrations of about 5 × 1018 cm-3.22 Thus, we can conclude that, due to the

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amphoteric nature of Si dopants in GaAs, compensation doping results in overall moderately

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doped n-type GaAs NCs.

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The highly n-type doped Si NWs aligned with a 124 nm long GaAs NC (NW2 in Figure 2a)

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results in a quantum-barrier-like structure with a barrier height for conduction electrons of about

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67.8 meV (see simulation results in Supporting Information 7). In contrast to the n-type Si NWs

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for which ohmic behavior was observed (cf. NW1), a strongly nonlinear but symmetric behavior

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is observed which is typical for field-induced tunneling currents that increase steeply when the

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effective tunneling barrier narrows for ascending bias voltages. Temperature-dependent I/V

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measurements, at a small bias voltage of 10 mV to minimize band-bending and tunneling effects,

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yielded an effective barrier height of approx. 50 meV which is in reasonable agreement with

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semi-classical device simulations (see Supporting Information 7).

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For NW heterostructures with a Ga segment adjacent to the GaAs NC, the Ga/GaAs Schottky

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junction dominates the I/V characteristics, resulting in a distinct rectifying behavior (NW3–NW6

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in Figure 2a). I/V characteristics are further labelled forward (reverse) for positive (negative)

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bias VSD applied to the NW end facing the Ga segment. According to the simulated energy band

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diagram under forward bias (right panel in Figure 3) conduction electrons encounter the small

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barrier at the Si/GaAs interface with a turn on voltage of around 0.2–0.6 V.

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Figure 3. Simulated energy band diagrams. Band diagrams of a Ga/GaAs/Si heterostructure

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similar to NW4, calculated with the semi-classical device simulator Minimos-NT under reverse

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(left panel), zero (center panel) and forward (right panel) bias conditions. EV denotes the valence

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band maximum and EC the conduction band minimum. The Fermi level as well as the electron

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and hole quasi Fermi levels are denoted by EF, EF,n and EF,p, respectively. The heterojunctions

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were assumed to be defect-free and the work function of Ga was fixed to 4.3 eV.23 Under non-

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zero bias conditions, the main drift component of the current is sketched as electrons (Θ)

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entering the GaAs NC by tunneling through the Ga/GaAs Schottky junction (reverse bias) or the

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Si/GaAs heterojunction (forward bias). The cascade process responsible for generating electron-

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hole (⊕) pairs due to impact ionization of hot charge carriers is shown for the device operated

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under reverse bias. The inset shows the I/V characteristics of NW4 with marked operating points

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for the three bias conditions.

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For such Si NW heterostructures containing a Ga/GaAs segment, Schottky barrier heights in

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the range of 186–330 meV were obtained from temperature-dependent I/V measurements. With 10 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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e the elementary charge, χ = 4.07 eV the electron affinity and eφm = 4.3 eV the work function of

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GaAs23, the Schottky barrier height of an ideal Ga/GaAs junction can be calculated to eφ = eφm

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− χ ≈ 230 meV. In literature, Schottky barrier heights of Ga/n-GaAs junctions are usually larger

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than 1 eV, owing to Fermi level pinning caused by defects at the interface21. Thus, a reasonable

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low number of interface defects due to the absence of Fermi level pinning can be assumed for the

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obtained Ga/GaAs Schottky junctions within NW heterostructures.

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Under reverse bias conditions, the voltage is supported across the drift region of the Schottky

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contact with the maximum electric field located at the Ga/GaAs interface. Due to a weak barrier

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lowering, the leakage current rises gradually with reverse bias as thermally excited electrons in

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the metal surmount the barrier. However, as the field increases further, a fraction of high energy

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carriers fail to lose energy by phonon emission, attaining energies in excess of the material

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bandgap and lose energy by creating electron-hole pairs – a process generally known as impact

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ionization24,25. At a crucial breakdown field, these generated carriers gain sufficient energies to

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induce further impact ionizations cascades leading to avalanche carrier multiplication (left panel

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in Figure 3).

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Simulations of the reverse biased NW heterostructure yielded high impact ionization rates in

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the GaAs NC next to the Schottky interface, proportional to the applied bias (see Supporting

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Information 8). Since negligible voltage is supported within the metal and the degenerately

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doped Si NW, the reverse blocking capability of the Schottky rectifier is governed by the GaAs

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NC and the breakdown voltage thereby appears to be linearly dependent on the length of the NC,

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as shown in Figure 2b.

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breakdown regime resulted in broadband light emission, clearly originating from the GaAs NCs.


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In Figure 4 an SEM image of the two-terminal device (Fig. 4a) and an optical microscope image

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(Fig. 4b) are shown, demonstrating distinct electroluminescence (EL) of NW4 under reverse bias

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conditions. The associated EL spectrum for the device operated under reverse and forward bias

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conditions is depicted in Figure 4c. The measured EL spectra were corrected according to

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transmission data obtained from calibrating the spectroscopy equipment with a calibrated

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Figure 4. Room temperature EL of a Ga/GaAs/Si NW heterostructure device. (a) SEM image,

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Optical microscope image (1 minute exposure time) of the same device under reverse bias

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conditions (VSD = -9.4 V, IS = -4 µA) with visible EL originating from the GaAs NC. Spectral

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decomposition of the EL spot is due to artefacts of the imaging system. (c) Corrected EL spectra

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acquired from NW4 under forward bias (VSD = 4.85 V, IS = 8.3 µA) and reverse bias (VSD = -9.4

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V, IS = -4 µA). Black curves are fittings according to Equation (1), representing luminescence

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Pronounced features were observed in the EL spectra above the GaAs band gap energy EG =

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background in the EL spectrum extending to the near-infrared is ascribed to intraband transitions,

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Under high forward biases, the weak EL appears to be consisting of Bremsstrahlung only.

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with kB the Boltzmann constant, and Te the electron temperature. Values for Te, obtained by

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the photon energy distribution, are in good agreement with temperatures of hot electrons in GaAs

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high-electron-mobility transistors26.

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the EL spectra, as shown in Figure 4c for such a reverse biased device. For a more detailed

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GaAs NC lengths and thus increasing breakdown voltages were investigated. Figure 5a shows

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Figure 5. EL spectra with designated transition energies. (a) Room temperature EL spectra

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valence bands with the relevant energies obtained from ref. 28: EG = 1.42 eV, EL = 1.72 eV, EX =

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Operated under reverse bias conditions (cf. Fig. 2a), these devices exhibited a broad visible EL

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such high electric fields, the conduction band Γ valley population is approaching zero with high

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populations of the X and L valleys25, diminishing direct Γ valley transitions (i.e. EL at the GaAs

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respective phonon-assisted radiative b-b recombinations as sketched in the GaAs energy band

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structure in Figure 5b. Due to the necessity of energy and momentum conservation, light

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emission arising from b-b recombinations requires electrons to be scattered from the indirect

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conduction band valleys to the zone center (k ≈ 0). High phonon density of states are related to a

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dispersion curves with almost zero slope30. In case of GaAs, the phonon dispersion of all kinds of

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involved phonons exhibit approximately zero slope at the X- and L-symmetry points31. Thus, a

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light-hole and split-off band29. The formation of hot charge carriers in 〈111〉 oriented GaAs NCs

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bias, a high electric field is present in the GaAs depletion layer adjacent to the Schottky

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structures confirmed impact ionization and also high yields of holes adjacent to the Ga/GaAs

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Schottky junction (see Supporting Information 8). Remarkably, with increasing bias voltages, EL

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emission extends further into the GaAs NC, which is consistent with the impact ionization

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generation rate simulations.

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assumed avalanche process with hot electrons injected from Ga into the GaAs NC, generating

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holes and resulting in the observed EL. Such single-nanowire light emitters yielded external

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quantum efficiencies of up to EQE = ∫ (Psp/Eλ) (e/I) dλ = 8.9 × 10−7, where the emitted spectral

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elementary charge. However, including the numerical aperture of the spectroscopy system and

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assembled metal/semiconductor NW heterostructures. The axially aligned Si/Ga/GaAs/Si NW

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luminescence due to impact ionization, revealing distinct maxima which are correlated with

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GaAs interband transitions. A low broadband exponential component of the EL is ascribed to

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Bremsstrahlung. A considerable benefit of the presented approach to process heterostructures

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within Si NWs is the advantageous condition for combining highly mismatched materials,

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provided by efficient strain relaxation. Recent experiments already supplied evidence for this

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method to be applicable to other highly mismatched III–V/Si heterostructures, namely InAs or

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InGaAs. Furthermore, this unique method is suitable for integrating axial metal segments into Si

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NWs, by only implanting metal ions. In this study, single NW heterostructures were investigated

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to gain insight into the fundamental properties of the processed light emitting devices. However,

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this method could readily be applied to process a large scale device consisting of straight Si NW

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arrays on bulk Si, allowing to significantly increase device performances due to parallel

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operation of numerous NW heterostructures.

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Supporting Information. SEM investigations of nanowire response on ion implantation and

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annealing, thin crystallite formation, detailed Raman and TEM-EDX investigations,

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experimental determination of Si nanowire doping type, simulations of Si/GaAs/Si barrier

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heights, hole concentrations and impact ionization generation rates. This material is available

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free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Corresponding Author

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* E-mail: [email protected]


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The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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The authors thank Michael Stöger-Pollach from the USTEM at TU Wien for providing

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EFTEM analysis of nanowire slices as well as Oskar Baumgartner from Global TCAD Solutions

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for his support in setting up simulations. We gratefully acknowledge financial support by the

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Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project No. I 724-N16, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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(DFG) project No. R01198/14-1 and thank the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) for

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funding through NCCR-QSIT. We would also like to acknowledge the ITN network

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'NanoEmbrace'. Furthermore we thank the interdisciplinary Centre for Electron Microscopy

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(CIME) at EPFL for access and training to the electron microscopes. The cleanroom facilities

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were provided by the Center for Micro- and Nanostructures (ZMNS) at TU Wien.

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EDX, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy; EL, electroluminescence; FLA, flash lamp

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annealing; HRTEM, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy; LPE, liquid phase

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epitaxy; NC, nano-crystallite; NW, nanowire; SEM, scanning transmission electron

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microscopy;TEM, transmission electron microscopy; VB, valence band; VLS, vapor-liquid-

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solid.

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