Disordered Si:P nanostructures as switches and wires for nanodevices

Abstract

Atomically precise placement of dopants in Si permits creating substitutional P nanowires by design. High-resolution images show that these wires are few atoms wide with some positioning disorder with respect to the substitutional Si structure sites. Disorder is expected to lead to electronic localization in one-dimensional (1D) - like structures. Experiments, however, report good transport properties in quasi-1D P nanoribbons. We investigate theoretically their electronic properties using an effective single-particle approach based on a linear combination of donor orbitals (LCDO), with a basis of six orbitals per donor site, thus keeping the ground state donor orbitals' oscillatory behavior due to interference among the states at the Si conduction band minima. Our model for the P positioning errors accounts for the presently achievable placement precision allowing to study the localization crossover. In addition, we show that a gate-like potential may control its conductance and localization length, suggesting the possible use of Si:P nanostructures as elements of quantum devices, such as nanoswitches and nanowires.

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