Novel dilute bismide, epitaxy, physical properties and device application

L Wang, L Zhang, L Yue, D Liang, X Chen, Y Li, P Lu… - Crystals, 2017 - mdpi.com
Dilute bismide in which a small amount of bismuth is incorporated to host III-Vs is the least
studied III-V compound semiconductor and has received steadily increasing attention since …

GaAsBi: from molecular beam epitaxy growth to devices

RD Richards, NJ Bailey, Y Liu… - … status solidi (b), 2022 - Wiley Online Library
GaAsBi has been researched as a candidate material for optoelectronic devices for around
two decades. Bi‐induced localized states induce a rapid rising of the valence band edge …

Requirements for a GaAsBi 1 eV sub-cell in a GaAs-based multi-junction solar cell

T Thomas, A Mellor, NP Hylton, M Führer… - Semiconductor …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Multi-junction solar cells achieve high efficiency by stacking sub-cells of different bandgaps
(typically GaInP/GaAs/Ge) resulting in efficiencies in excess of 40%. The efficiency can be …

Formation and phase transformation of Bi-containing QD-like clusters in annealed GaAsBi

M Wu, E Luna, J Puustinen, M Guina… - Nanotechnology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the formation and phase transformation of Bi-containing clusters in $\text
{GaA}{{\text {s}} _ {1-x}} $ Bi $ _ {x} $ epilayers upon annealing. The $\text {GaA}{{\text {s}} …

Lattice dynamics and carrier recombination in GaAs/GaAsBi nanowires

M Jansson, VV Nosenko, GY Rudko, F Ishikawa… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
GaAsBi nanowires represent a novel and promising material platform for future nano-
photonics. However, the growth of high-quality GaAsBi nanowires and GaAsBi alloy is still a …

Surface effects of vapour-liquid-solid driven Bi surface droplets formed during molecular-beam-epitaxy of GaAsBi

JA Steele, RA Lewis, J Horvat, MJB Nancarrow… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Herein we investigate a (001)-oriented GaAs1− x Bi x/GaAs structure possessing Bi
surface droplets capable of catalysing the formation of nanostructures during Bi-rich growth …

Observation of atomic ordering of triple-period-A and-B type in GaAsBi

M Wu, E Luna, J Puustinen, M Guina… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We report the observation of atomic ordering of triple-period (TP)-A and-B type in low
temperature (LT) grown GaAsBi alloy using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In …

Metamorphic gaas/gaasbi heterostructured nanowires

F Ishikawa, Y Akamatsu, K Watanabe, F Uesugi… - Nano Letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
GaAs/GaAsBi coaxial multishell nanowires were grown by molecular beam epitaxy.
Introducing Bi results in a characteristic nanowire surface morphology with strong …

Configuration dependence of band-gap narrowing and localization in dilute alloys

LC Bannow, O Rubel, SC Badescu, P Rosenow… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Anion substitution with bismuth (Bi) in III-V semiconductors is an effective method for
experimental engineering of the band gap E g at low Bi concentrations (≤ 2%), in particular …

Spontaneous formation of three-dimensionally ordered Bi-rich nanostructures within GaAs1− xBix/GaAs quantum wells

E Luna, M Wu, M Hanke, J Puustinen, M Guina… - …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we report on the spontaneous formation of ordered arrays of nanometer-sized
Bi-rich structures due to lateral composition modulations in Ga (As, Bi)/GaAs quantum wells …