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- Figure 2c is another schematic illustration of a true core shape
- Figure 8 illustrates theoretical field strength in various material combinations (zinc blende crystalline materials) in a [111] -oriented nanowire with core-shell according to an embodiment
- Figures 13a to 13f show the elastic strain on a cross section of embodiments of a core-shell nanowires
- Figure 17b shows schematically the symmetry and principal crystal axes of the [0001] oriented wurtzite material with respect to the nanowire geometry, according to one embodiment of the present invention
- nanowires and nanowire heterostructures enables thereby the combination of lattices and materials, which are less alike than what is possible during the growth of planar structures.
- ⁇ u c ljM E ⁇ M - e k i j E k (summing over j , and k)
- D 1 C 1J k S J k + ⁇ u s E j
- ⁇ the stress tensor
- c E the elastic stiffness tensor
- ⁇ the strain tensor
- e the piezoelectric tensor
- E the electric field
- D the electric displacement
- ⁇ s is the dielectric tensor. If a piezoelectric material is strained, i.e. 8 M ⁇ 0, this will in general induce an electric field Ek ⁇ 0.
- this electric field is used for the separation of photon generated electron-hole pairs.
- a core-shell geometry of dissimilar crystalline materials there will be an elastic strain due to the lattice mismatch between the crystal of the core and the shell or between different shells. This elastic strain induces also an electric field in the structure as described above.
- a core-shell wire comprises wurtzite crystalline materials with different lattice constants.
- the axis of the wire is aligned in parallel with a [0001] direction (also referred to as the c-axis) of the wurtzite crystalline materials. This will induce a strain in the wire, which induce a non-zero component of the piezoelectric field along the axis of the wire.
- a planar structure comprises two thin sheets of zinc blende crystalline materials with different lattice constants.
- the orientation of the sheets is such that a [H I] crystal direction of the zinc blende crystalline materials lies within the plane of the sheets. This will induce a strain in both sheets, which induces a non-zero component of the piezoelectric field within the plane of the sheets.
- FIG. 3a illustrates the device 10 according to an embodiment.
- the device comprises a nanowire 10 connected at a first longitudinal end to a first electrical contact 31 and at a second longitudinal end to a substrate 32.
- the second longitudinal end of the nanowire 10 is connected to a first side of the substrate 32.
- On a second side of the substrate the second electrical contact 33 is connected.
- the first and second electrical contact 31, 33 of the device may be connected to a resistance or load 34 by leads 35, 36, respectively.
- Non-uniform sheet geometry may for example be achieved by arranging strips of contact material onto the ends of the nanowires. Other patterns than strips are also possible, such as nets, within the scope of the present invention.
- Non-uniform sheet geometry of contact 33 allows for increased permeability of photons.
- the diameter is in the interval of 1 to 10 ⁇ m.
- the robustness of the device is increased and the polarization dependence of the photon harvesting decreases. In this respect it is believed that the polarization dependence can be overcome in solar cell applications by regulation of the device design.
- the nanowire is manufactured such that the diameter falls within this interval of thick/large diameters some advantages may be obtained. Making electrical contacts may become easier.
- the dielectric material between the nanowires may in certain instances be omitted.
- the device comprises two or more shells of different crystalline or poly-crystalline semiconducting materials.
- Figure 7a illustrates such a device.
- An additional inner shell 71 in accordance with Fig. 7b, which is a cross section of a device according to one embodiment, may be deposited onto the core 11 by using e.g. liquid phase epitaxy, vapor phase epitaxy, or molecular beam epitaxy, which methods are known to the skilled artisan.
- the shell 12 of the second material is deposited by using e.g. liquid phase epitaxy, vapor phase epitaxy, or molecular beam epitaxy. In this way a radial heterostructure is obtained within the shell
- the segment 72 is of a material having a band gap energy in the interval of 1.7 to 1.9 eV
- the segment 74 is of a material having a band gap energy in the interval of 1.2 to 1.3 eV
- the segment 75 is of a material having a band gap energy in the interval of 0.6 to 0.8 eV.
- the second material can be any semiconductor or an insulator with a crystalline structure.
- the second material may also be a material with piezoelectric property.
- Such suitable material for the second material can for example be selected from the group comprising Si, Ge, C, SiGe, BN, BP, BAs, BSb, AlN, AlP, AlAs, GaN, GaP, GaAs, GaSb, InN, 5 InP, InAs, InSb, AlGaAs, InGaAs, AlGaAsP, GaAsP, ZnO, ZnS, ZnSe, ZnTe, CdO, CdS, CdSe, CdTe, MnTe, and SiC. Note that Si, Ge and C do not have piezoelectric properties.
- the properties, and in particular the magnitude of the piezoelectric 5 field, of a core-shell nanowire depends on the orientation of it with respect to the crystal lattice as a result of the anisotropic stiffness, piezoelectric and dielectric tensors. This applies to both zinc blende and wurtzite nanowires.
- the main parameters are change of materials, and the radii of the core and the shells, with respect to each other.
- the device may be used as a photon detector for a wide variety of spectral bands - ranging from deep infrared electromagnetic radiation to ultraviolet electromagnetic radiation.
- the underlying material should be selected from the point of view of the band gap.
- a semiconductor can also absorb photons of energies greater than the band gap energy of the semiconductor.
- a material with a small band gap is thereby suitable for absorption of infra-red light.
- a material with a larger band gap is on the contrary suitable for absorption of (ultra) violet light.
- the exact absorption rate and spectrum are also modified by strain and quantum confinement.
- the quantum confinement blue-shifts the absorption spectrum.
- a compressive (tensile) strain typically blue-shifts (red-shifts) the absorption spectrum of a III-V compound semiconductor.
- the wavelength ⁇ of light is given by
- the piezoelectric device the first and the second material may be configured into a sheet geometry, in accordance with figure 11.
- the device consists of a first and a second sheet 111, 112.
- the first and the second sheet 111, 112 are parallel and epitaxially connected.
- the first sheet 111 may be a rigid substrate onto which the other sheet is grown using e.g. vapor phase epitaxy, liquid phase epitaxy or molecular beam epitaxy.
- the orientation of the first and the second zinc blende crystalline materials 111, 112 is such that the interface between the two sheets is perpendicular to the [-1 0 1] crystal direction.
- the first sheet 111 may be called a [-1 0 1] oriented substrate.
- Figure 14 shows the transversal component (x/y component) of the piezoelectric field at a cross section of an InAs/InP core-shell nanowire.
- the nanowire consists of an InAs core and an InP shell, both materials being in the zinc blende crystal phase and the axis of the wire (equals to the Z axis) being aligned with the [111] crystal direction.
- the magnitude of the arrow is proportional to the magnitude of the piezoelectric field.
- the maximum absolute value of the piezoelectric field is in Figure 13 approximately (Ex2/Ey2) 1/2 ⁇ 13 mV/nm.
- the longitudinal component Ez of the piezoelectric field is constant at the whole cross section of the nanowire.
- Figure 15 shows the piezoelectric field in a QD WZ structure with the isopotential lines included.
- Figures 18a and 18b show the piezoelectric potential, in terms of isosurfaces for selected values of the potential, in a ZB and a WZ phase core-shell heterostructure.
- the axial component Ez of the piezoelectric field is constant everywhere within the radial heterostructures and far from the ends of the nanowire.
- the corresponding isosurfaces of the potential are therefore flat.
- the ZB heterostructure does, however, induce a nonvanishing electric field within the xy plane as well and the isosurfaces of the potential are correspondingly nonplanar for the ZB heterostructure. These isosurfaces are saddle surfaces with three maxima and three minima.
- the saddle surfaces of the potential in a ZB core-shell nanowire is expected to induce a channeling of electron and hole currents into different areas of the nanowire. This means that the electrons and holes, which are drifting along the axis of the nanowire, are also separated in the cross sectional xy plane by the piezoelectric field. This is expected to reduce the electron-hole recombination in a favorable way.
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La présente invention concerne un dispositif électronique à semi-conducteurs comportant des nanofils avec un champ piézoélectrique incorporé. Les nanofils servent à la collecte de photons, un champ piézoélectrique incorporé dans les nanofils étant substitué à une jonction PN, qui est utilisée dans des cellules photovoltaïques classiques. Le champ piézoélectrique est induit par la combinaison de matériaux à réseaux moléculaires à désalignement axial en une géométrie noyau/enveloppe.
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