Abstract
Dopants in nanowires, whether intentional or unintentional, can ultimately control the material's properties and, therefore, need to be understood on the atomic scale. We study vapor−liquid−solid grown manganese-doped lead sulfide nanowires by atom-probe tomography for the first time for lead salt materials. The three-dimensional chemical con- centration maps at the atomic scale demonstrate a radial distribution profile of Mn ions, with a concentration of only 0.18 and 0.01 at. % for MnCl2 and Mn-acetate precursors, respectively. The ability to characterize these small concentrations of dopant atoms in Pb1−xMnxS nanowires (x = 0.0036 and 0.0002), important for spintronic and thermoelectric devices, sets a platform for similar analyses for all nanostructures. First-principles calculations con- firm that Mn atoms substitute for Pb in the PbS structure.
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