Strong Hot Carrier Effects in Single Nanowire Heterostructures.

Shojaei, Iraj Abbasian; Linser, Samuel; Jnawali, Giriraj; Wickramasuriya, N; Jackson, Howard E; Smith, Leigh M; Kargar, Fariborz; Balandin, Alexander A et al. · Nano Lett · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We use transient Rayleigh scattering to study the thermalization of hot photoexcited carriers in single GaAs<sub>0.7</sub>Sb<sub>0.3</sub>/InP nanowire heterostructures. By comparing the energy loss rate in single core-only GaAs<sub>0.7</sub>Sb<sub>0.3</sub> 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.