Structural Aspect of Formation of a Nanosystem of In/In$_{4}$Se$_{3}$ (100)
P. V. Galiy$^{1}$, P. Mazur$^{2}$, A. Ciszewski$^{2}$, T. M. Nenchuk$^{1}$, I. R. Yarovets’$^{1}$, O. R. Dveriy$^{3}$
$^{1}$Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 1 Universytets’ka Str., UA-79000 Lviv, Ukraine
$^{2}$University of Wrocław, Institute of Experimental Physics, 9 Maxa Borna Plac, 50—204 Wrocław, Poland
$^{3}$Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy, 32 Heroes of Maidan Str., 79012 Lviv, Ukraine
Received: 12.04.2018. Download: PDF
Self-assembled indium deposition-induced nanostructures are obtained on the UHV cleaved (100) surface of In$_4$Se$_3$ layered semiconductor crystals. The small indium-deposition rates and short deposition times are chosen to study growth orientation and origin of nanostructures observed by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) on the (100) surface of In$_4$Se$_3$ after indium deposition. The shape of these nanostructures strictly depends on the overstoichiometric indium concentration level in the melt during the crystal growth varying from 3$D$ islands for low concentration to elongated shapes, i.e., nanowires, in the case of highly-indium-doped crystals. High-resolution STM study determines the self-assembled quasi-periodical nanowires’ growth along $c$-axis of (100)In$_4$Se$_3$ substrate. The spatially resolved scanning tunnelling spectroscopy (STS) study revealed metallic nature of the surface of nanostructures grown on the semiconductor substrate. The growth mechanism of indium-deposited nanostructures is considered to be powered by anisotropic striated lattice structure of In$_4$Se$_3$ (100) surface with indium nucleiin concentration depending on the degree of overstoichiometric crystal-growth indium subsequently intercalated into the interlayer gap.
Key words: layered trichalcogenides, self-assembling nanostructures, nanowires, scanning tunnelling microscopy, scanning tunnelling spectroscopy.
URL: http://mfint.imp.kiev.ua/en/abstract/v40/i10/1349.html
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/mfint.40.10.1349
PACS: 68.37.Ef,68.47.De,68.47.Fg,73.20.At,73.21.Hb,73.63.Nm,81.16.Dn,81.16.Rf
Citation: P. V. Galiy, P. Mazur, A. Ciszewski, T. M. Nenchuk, I. R. Yarovets’, and O. R. Dveriy, Structural Aspect of Formation of a Nanosystem of In/In$_{4}$Se$_{3}$ (100), Metallofiz. Noveishie Tekhnol., 40, No. 10: 1349—1358 (2018)