May 26 – 29, 2015
Hotel Rigi Kulm
Europe/Zurich timezone
7th Status Meeting 2015, Rigi Kulm

Next Generation III-V Nanowire-based Heterostructure Solar Cells and Photodetectors Integrated on Silicon

May 27, 2015, 9:15 AM
30m
Main Lecture Hall (Hotel Rigi Kulm)

Main Lecture Hall

Hotel Rigi Kulm

6410 Rigi Kulm Switzerland

Speaker

Mr XiaoMo Xu (Walter-Schottky-Institut; MaMaSELF)

Description

III-V based nanowire (NW) heterostructures are one of the most promising candidates for future opto-electronic devices like light emitters and detectors, particularly when integrated onto the well-developed Silicon (Si) platform. Using nano-imprint lithography (NIL) to prepattern Si (111) wafer, NW arrays with very high growth yield (>90%) can be achieved over large–scale areas. Developing a state of the art UV-imprint process we could significantly enhance the flexibility of the NIL setup using a novel home-designed table top device. By producing replicas of NIL stamps with various patterns, full control over the inter-NW spacing could be achieved, one crucial prerequisite to further increase the efficiency of NW-based solar cells fabricated from InGaAs-InAlAs NW heterostructures. Using these optimized prepatterned substrates, NW growth is performed in a completely catalyst-free growth regime via molecular beam epitaxy, allowing detailed insight into morphology (scanning electron microscopy, SEM), luminescence properties (micro-luminescence, µ-PL) and absorption cross-section (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, FTIR) for different interwire-spacings. This opens numerous opportunities to advance NW-based heterostructures, such as integrated nanophotonic sources on Si and NW-based photovoltaics.

Primary author

Mr XiaoMo Xu (Walter-Schottky-Institut; MaMaSELF)

Co-authors

Dr Gregor Koblmüller (Walter-Schottky-Institut) Mr Julian Treu (Walter-Schottky-Institut)

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