First principles study of electronic properties of gallium nitride nanowires grown along different crystal directions |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India;2. Centre for Research in Nanotechnology and Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India;3. Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India |
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Abstract: | The electronic properties of hydrogen-saturated GaN nanowires with different orientations and sizes are investigated using first principles calculations, and three types of nanowires oriented along the [0 0 1], [1 1 0] and [1 −1 0] crystal directions are considered. The electronic properties of nanowires in all three directions are extremely similar. All the hydrogen-saturated GaN nanowires show semiconducting behavior with a direct band gap larger than that of bulk wurtzite GaN. Quantum confinement leads to a decrease in the band gap of the nanowires with increasing nanowire size. The [0 0 1]-oriented nanowires with hexagonal cross sections are energetically more favorable than the [1 0 0]- and [1 −1 0]-oriented nanowires with triangular cross sections. |
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