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| author | Steinvall, Simon Escobar Thulin, Hampus Kawashima, Nico Salutari, Francesco Johansson, Jonas Urbonavicius, Aidas Lehmann, Sebastian Spadaro, Maria Chiara Arbiol, Jordi Botti, Silvana Dick, Kimberly A. |
| author_facet | Steinvall, Simon Escobar Thulin, Hampus Kawashima, Nico Salutari, Francesco Johansson, Jonas Urbonavicius, Aidas Lehmann, Sebastian Spadaro, Maria Chiara Arbiol, Jordi Botti, Silvana Dick, Kimberly A. |
| contents | To enable lightweight and flexible solar cell applications it is imperative to develop direct bandgap absorber materials. Moreover, to enhance the potential sustainability impact of the technologies there is a drive to base the devices on earth-abundant and readily available elements. Herein, we report on the epitaxial growth of Zn3P2 nanowires using exclusively earth-abundant components, using Sn as the nanowire catalyst and Si (111) as the substrate. We observe that the nanowires exhibit a triangular cross section at lower temperatures, a pseudo-pentagonal cross section at intermediate temperatures, and a hexagonal cross section in a twin plane superlattice configuration at high temperatures and high V/II ratios. At low temperatures, the surface facets are constricted into a metastable configuration, yielding the triangular morphology due to the symmetry of the substrate, while intermediate temperatures facilitate the formation of a pseudo-pentagonal morphology with lower surface to volume ratio. The twin plane superlattice structure can only be observed at conditions that facilitate the incorporation of Sn into Zn3P2, which is needed to form heterotwins in the tetragonal structure, namely at high temperatures and high phosphine partial pressures. These findings show a clear pathway to use Zn3P2 nanowires in sustainable solar energy harvesting using exclusively earth-abundant components, as well as opening up a novel route of fabricating quantum wells inside nanowires using heterotwins. |
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| spellingShingle | Unconventional cross sections in zinc phosphide nanowires grown using exclusively earth-abundant components Steinvall, Simon Escobar Thulin, Hampus Kawashima, Nico Salutari, Francesco Johansson, Jonas Urbonavicius, Aidas Lehmann, Sebastian Spadaro, Maria Chiara Arbiol, Jordi Botti, Silvana Dick, Kimberly A. Materials Science To enable lightweight and flexible solar cell applications it is imperative to develop direct bandgap absorber materials. Moreover, to enhance the potential sustainability impact of the technologies there is a drive to base the devices on earth-abundant and readily available elements. Herein, we report on the epitaxial growth of Zn3P2 nanowires using exclusively earth-abundant components, using Sn as the nanowire catalyst and Si (111) as the substrate. We observe that the nanowires exhibit a triangular cross section at lower temperatures, a pseudo-pentagonal cross section at intermediate temperatures, and a hexagonal cross section in a twin plane superlattice configuration at high temperatures and high V/II ratios. At low temperatures, the surface facets are constricted into a metastable configuration, yielding the triangular morphology due to the symmetry of the substrate, while intermediate temperatures facilitate the formation of a pseudo-pentagonal morphology with lower surface to volume ratio. The twin plane superlattice structure can only be observed at conditions that facilitate the incorporation of Sn into Zn3P2, which is needed to form heterotwins in the tetragonal structure, namely at high temperatures and high phosphine partial pressures. These findings show a clear pathway to use Zn3P2 nanowires in sustainable solar energy harvesting using exclusively earth-abundant components, as well as opening up a novel route of fabricating quantum wells inside nanowires using heterotwins. |
| title | Unconventional cross sections in zinc phosphide nanowires grown using exclusively earth-abundant components |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03906 |