Metallic and semimetallic silicon <100> nanowires
Rurali, Riccardo (Université Paul Sabatier. Laboratoire Collisions, Agrégats, Réactivité)
Lorente, N. (Université Paul Sabatier. Laboratoire Collisions, Agrégats, Réactivité)
American Physical Society

Date:	2005
Abstract:	Silicon nanowires grown along the <100> direction with a bulk Si core are studied with density-functional calculations. Two surface reconstructions prevail after exploration of a large fraction of the phase space of nanowire reconstructions. Despite their energetical equivalence, one of the reconstructions is found to be strongly metallic while the other one is semimetallic. This electronic-structure behavior is dictated by the particular surface states of each reconstruction. These results imply that doping is not required in order to obtain good conducting Si nanowires.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Physical review letters, Vol. 94, Issue 2 (January 2005) , p. 026805, ISSN 1079-7114

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.026805

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