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Metallic and Semimetallic Silicon ⟨100⟩ Nanowires

Riccardo Rurali
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Nicolas Lorente

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 semi-metallic. 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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hal-00126712 , version 1 (25-01-2007)

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Riccardo Rurali, Nicolas Lorente. Metallic and Semimetallic Silicon ⟨100⟩ Nanowires. Physical Review Letters, 2005, 94, pp.026805. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.026805⟩. ⟨hal-00126712⟩
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