High-throughput spectroscopy of semiconductor nanowires in the presence of inhomogeneity

• Controllable doping in semiconductor nanowires is essential for development of optoelectronic devices. Despite great progress, a fundamental challenge remains in controlling the uniformity of doping, particularly in the presence of relatively high levels of geometrical inhomogeneity in bottom-up growth. A relatively high doping level of 1E18 cm-3 corresponds to just ~1000 activated dopants in a 2µm long, 50nm diameter nanowire. High-throughput photoluminescence spectroscopy enables the collection of doping distributions across many (>10k) nanowires, but geometric variation adds additional uncertainty to the modelling. We present an approach that uses large datasets of doping and emission intensity to infer both doping and diameter across a growth, and apply Bayesian methods to study the underlying distributions in Zn-doped aerotaxy-grown GaAs nanowires. This new big-data enabled approach provides a route to exploit inherent inhomogeneity to reveal fundamental recombination mechanisms.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)

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