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ArticleScientific reports2021

A study of dopant incorporation in Te-doped GaAsSb nanowires using a combination of XPS/UPS, and C-AFM/SKPM.

Priyanka Ramaswamy, Shisir Devkota, Rabin Pokharel, Surya Nalamati, Fred Stevie, Keith Jones, Lew Reynolds, Shanthi Iyer

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Priyanka RamaswamyDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, 27401, USA.
Shisir DevkotaNanoengineering, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, 27401, USA.
Rabin PokharelNanoengineering, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, 27401, USA.
Surya NalamatiDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, 27401, USA.
Fred StevieAnalytical Instrumentation Facility, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.
Keith JonesAsylum Research, an Oxford Instruments Company, 6310 Hollister Ave., Santa Barbara, CA, 93117, USA.
Lew ReynoldsDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.
Shanthi IyerNanoengineering, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, 27401, USA. iyer@ncat.edu.
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University · USNorth Carolina State University · USOxford Instruments (United States) · US

Funding

Air Force Office of Scientific Research,United States W911NF1910002National Science Foundation, United States ECCS-1832117
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the first study on doping assessment in Te-doped GaAsSb nanowires (NWs) with variation in Gallium Telluride (GaTe) cell temperature, using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), conductive-atomic force microscopy (C-AFM), and scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM). The NWs were grown using Ga-assisted molecular beam epitaxy with a GaTe captive source as the dopant cell. Te-incorporation in the NWs was associated with a positive shift in the binding energy of the 3d shells of the core constituent elements in doped NWs in the XPS spectra, a lowering of the work function in doped NWs relative to undoped ones from UPS spectra, a significantly higher photoresponse in C-AFM and an increase in surface potential of doped NWs observed in SKPM relative to undoped ones. The carrier concentration of Te-doped GaAsSb NWs determined from UPS spectra are found to be consistent with the values obtained from simulated I-V characteristics. Thus, these surface analytical tools, XPS/UPS and C-AFM/SKPM, that do not require any sample preparation are found to be powerful characterization techniques to analyze the dopant incorporation and carrier density in homogeneously doped NWs.

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