Novel GaNAs and GaNP-based Nanowires - Promising Materials for Optoelectronics and Photonics

• In this paper we review our recent results on optical properties of coaxial nanowires (NWs) based on dilute nitride alloys, such as GaAsN and GaNP. We show that these structures have a high structural and optical quality, and can potentially be used as polarized nano-scale light sources that emit linearly polarized light with the polarization direction perpendicular to the wire axis even in zincblende NWs of various diameters. We also demonstrate that, though the GaNxP1-x alloys have rather wide bandgap energies of 1.9 - 2.3 eV, the coaxial GaNP NWs absorb infrared light via two-step two-photon absorption.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Annan fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Other Physics Topics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

nanowire; dilute nitrides; gallium phosphide; gallium arsenide

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