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Raman Scattering Spectroscopy and Photoluminescence of GaAs Nanowires

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Experimental data on studying the phonon and optical properties of GaAs nanowires with orientation (111) located on a gold substrate with the help of Raman scattering spectroscopy (RSS) and photoluminescence (PL) are presented. Structural parameters of nanowires are determined by the atomic-force microscopy (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) methods. In the micro-RSS and micro-PL spectra of a single GaAs nanowire, the modes of optical phonons of GaAs and their overtones up to the third order and an exciton luminescence band are observed. In the micro-PL spectra, anisotropy of the PL intensity is observed; the maximum/minimum signal is observed at the polarization-vector direction along/across the wire. Mapping of nano-PL of a single GaAs nanowire is performed with a spatial resolution of 20 nm, which is significantly smaller than the diffraction limit. When passing to the nanometer scale, a plasmon amplification of the signal of the near-field exciton nano-PL conditioned by the metallized AFM-needle is revealed.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to A.S. Medvedev and L.A. Nenasheva for producing probes for nano-PL.

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This work is supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, project no. 075-15-2020-797 (13.1902.21.0024).

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    I. V. Kalachev & I. A. Milekhin

  2. Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    I. V. Kalachev, I. A. Milekhin, E. A. Emel’yanov, V. V. Preobrazhenskii, V. S. Tumashev, A. G. Milekhin & A. V. Latyshev

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Kalachev, I.V., Milekhin, I.A., Emel’yanov, E.A. et al. Raman Scattering Spectroscopy and Photoluminescence of GaAs Nanowires. Optoelectron.Instrument.Proc. 59, 659–666 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S8756699023060055

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