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Uniaxial strain-modulated electronic structures of CdX (X=S, Se, Te) from first-principles calculations: A comparison between bulk and nanowires |
Linlin Xiang(相琳琳), Shenyuan Yang(杨身园) |
State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China |
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Abstract Using first-principles calculations based on density functional theory, we systematically study the structural deformation and electronic properties of wurtzite CdX (X=S, Se, Te) bulk and nanowires (NWs) under uniaxial [0001] strain. Due to the intrinsic shrinking strain induced by surface contraction, large NWs with {1010} facets have heavy hole (HH)-like valence band maximum (VBM) states, while NWs with {1120} facets have crystal hole (CH)-like VBM states. The external uniaxial strain induces an HH-CH band crossing at a critical strain for both bulk and NWs, resulting in nonlinear variations in band gap and hole effective mass at VBM. Unlike the bulk phase, the critical strain of NWs highly depends on the character of the VBM state in the unstrained case, which is closely related to the size and facet of NWs. The critical strain of bulk is at compressive range, while the critical strain of NWs with HH-like and CH-like VBM appears at compressive and tensile strain, respectively. Due to the HH-CH band crossing, the charge distribution of the VBM state in NWs can also be tuned by the external uniaxial strain. Despite the complication of the VBM state, the electron effective mass at conduction band minimum (CBM) of NWs shows a linear relation with the CBM-HH energy difference, the same as the bulk material.
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Received: 10 March 2017
Revised: 04 May 2017
Accepted manuscript online:
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PACS:
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71.15.Mb
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(Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections)
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73.22.-f
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(Electronic structure of nanoscale materials and related systems)
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73.61.Ga
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(II-VI semiconductors)
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77.80.bn
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(Strain and interface effects)
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Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11204296 and 61427901) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2014CB643902 and 2013CB933304). |
Corresponding Authors:
Shenyuan Yang
E-mail: syyang@semi.ac.cn
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About author: 0.1088/1674-1056/26/8/ |
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Linlin Xiang(相琳琳), Shenyuan Yang(杨身园) Uniaxial strain-modulated electronic structures of CdX (X=S, Se, Te) from first-principles calculations: A comparison between bulk and nanowires 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 087103
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