Spectral Anomaly in Raman Scattering from p‑Type Silicon Nanowires

An anomalous nature of Raman spectral asymmetry has been reported here from silicon nanowires (SiNWs) prepared from a heavily doped p-type Si wafer using a metal induced etching technique. Raman spectra of SiNWs prepared from two p-type Si wafers with different doping levels show different behaviors...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of physical chemistry. C 2017-03, Vol.121 (9), p.5372-5378
Hauptverfasser: Yogi, Priyanka, Poonia, Deepika, Mishra, Suryakant, Saxena, Shailendra K, Roy, Swarup, Kumar, Vivek, Sagdeo, Pankaj R, Kumar, Rajesh
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Zusammenfassung:An anomalous nature of Raman spectral asymmetry has been reported here from silicon nanowires (SiNWs) prepared from a heavily doped p-type Si wafer using a metal induced etching technique. Raman spectra of SiNWs prepared from two p-type Si wafers with different doping levels show different behaviors in terms of asymmetry as characterized by the asymmetry ratio. The SiNWs prepared from high doped p-type wafer show an anomaly in asymmetry in addition to the red shift and broadening of the Raman line shape due to the presence of the “FAno-quaNTUM” (FANTUM) effect. The heavy doping in the wafer provides a continuum of energy states to be available to interact with confined optic phonons which results in electron–phonon interaction. SiNWs prepared from low doped p-type wafer show a red shift and asymmetric broadening due to the quantum confinement effect alone. Careful analysis has been provided to clearly understand the role of Fano and quantum effects in p-type SiNWs with high doping and their relative contribution in Raman line-shape half-widths. A theoretical framework for supporting the presence of the FANTUM effect has also been proposed to show that how a system with appropriate Fano and quantum effects’ relative contribution may result in a near-symmetric Raman line shape.
ISSN:1932-7447
1932-7455
DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b12811