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Type I band alignment in GaAs<inf>81</inf>Sb<inf>19</inf>/GaAs core-shell nanowires

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Xu, Tao
Wei, M.J.
Capiod, P.
Díaz Álvarez, A.
Han, Xiang-Lei
Troadec, D.
Nys, J.P.
Berthe, M.
Lefebvre, I
Patriarche, G.

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American Institute of Physics (AIP)

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The composition and band gap of the shell that formed during the growth of axial GaAs/GaAs<inf>81</inf>Sb<inf>19</inf>/ GaAs heterostructure nanowires have been investigated by transmission electron microscopy combined with energy dispersion spectroscopy, scanning tunneling spectroscopy, and density functional theory calculations. On the GaAs<inf>81</inf>Sb<inf>19</inf> intermediate segment, the shell is found to be free of Sb (pure GaAs shell) and transparent to the tunneling electrons, despite the (110) biaxial strain that affects its band gap. As a result, a direct measurement of the core band gap allows the quantitative determination of the band offset between the GaAs<inf>81</inf>Sb<inf>19</inf> core and the GaAs shell and identifies it as a type I band alignment.

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Applied Physics Letters

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