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Fabrication of one-dimensional nanowire structures utilizing crystallographic orientation in silicon and their conductance characteristics

 

作者: Hideo Namatsu,   Seiji Horiguchi,   Masao Nagase,   Kenji Kurihara,  

 

期刊: Journal of Vacuum Science&Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena  (AIP Available online 1997)
卷期: Volume 15, issue 5  

页码: 1688-1696

 

ISSN:1071-1023

 

年代: 1997

 

DOI:10.1116/1.589356

 

出版商: American Vacuum Society

 

关键词: Si

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

We propose a process for fabricating one-dimensional Si nanowires with a point contact. The nanowire structure can be easily obtained through two steps: KOH etching of a {110} Si layer of a silicon on insulator substrate and sufficient oxidation of the Si patterns formed by etching. In the etching process, vertical sidewalls comprised of {111} planes are formed into a wire. In addition, other {111} planes, projecting obliquely along the vertical sidewalls, spontaneously appear in the etched substrate. This is due to the fact that the etching proceeds as {111} planes appear because the etch rate of the {111} plane is the lowest of all planes. The bottom-corner region of two inclined {111} planes becomes a point-contact structure by making the distance between two inclined planes appropriate. The oxidation process converts the two-dimensional wire into one-dimensional nanowire by the stress-dependent oxidation phenomena of the Si wire. Consequently, a Si nanowire with a point contact can be formed in the bottom region. The Si nanowires fabricated through this process show clear conductance steps with little fluctuation on plateaus at 45 K. In addition, we discuss the conductance step characteristics in connection with a calculated energy level for a nanowire in (110) Si.

 

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