Unit cell structure of crystal polytypes in InAs and InSb nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1483-1489

  Kriegner, Dominik ^a   Panse, Christian ^b   Mandl, Bernhard ^a,c   Dick, Kimberly A ^c   Keplinger, Mario ^a   Persson, Johan M ^d   Caroff, Philippe ^c,e   Ercolani, Daniele ^f   Sorba, Lucia ^f   Bechstedt, Friedhelm ^b   Stangl, Julian ^a   Bauer, Günther ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^f ISTITUTO NANOSCIENZE CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

crystal structure; density functional theory; Nanowires; polytypes; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC DISTANCES; ATOMIC LAYER; BI-LAYER; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; III-V COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR; IN-PLANE; INAS; INSB NANOWIRE; LATTICE PARAMETERS; LATTICE PLANE; POLYTYPES; STACKING SEQUENCE; UNIT CELLS; WURTZITES; ZINC BLENDE;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIFFRACTION; INDIUM ANTIMONIDES; INDIUM ARSENIDE; LATTICE CONSTANTS; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAYS; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

ANTIMONY; INDIUM; INDIUM ARSENIDE; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTIMONY; ARSENICALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDIUM; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 79954479071     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl1041512     Document Type: Article

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