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Analysis of Contact Interfaces for Single GaN Nanowire Devices
Published on: November 15, 2013
Strong Hot Carrier Effects in Single Nanowire Heterostructures
Iraj Abbasian Shojaei1, Samuel Linser1, Giriraj Jnawali1
1Department of Physics , University of Cincinnati , Cincinnati , Ohio 45221 , United States.
Abstract:
We use transient Rayleigh scattering to study the thermalization of hot photoexcited carriers in single GaAs0.7Sb0.3/InP nanowire heterostructures. By comparing the energy loss rate in single core-only GaAs0.7Sb0.3 nanowires which do not show substantial hot carrier effects with the core-shell nanowires, we show that the presence of an InP shell substantially suppresses the longitudinal optical phonon emission rate at low temperatures which then leads to strong hot carrier effects.
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