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Nanotechnology. 2016 May 13;27(19):195201. doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/27/19/195201. Epub 2016 Apr 04.

Tailoring the core electron density in modulation-doped core-multi-shell nanowires.

Nanotechnology

Fabrizio Buscemi, Miquel Royo, Guido Goldoni, Andrea Bertoni

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, Informatics, and Mathematics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213/A, I-41125 Modena, Italy.

PMID: 27041743 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/27/19/195201

Abstract

We show how a proper radial modulation of the composition of core-multi-shell nanowires (NWs) critically enhances the control of the free-carrier density in the high-mobility core with respect to core-single-shell structures, thus overcoming the technological difficulty of fine tuning the remote doping density. We calculate the electron population of the different NW layers as a function of the doping density and of several geometrical parameters by means of a self-consistent Schrödinger-Poisson approach: free carriers tend to localize in the outer shell and screen the core from the electric field of the dopants.

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