Quantitative analysis of metastable wurtzite phase into the self-catalyzed GaP NWs

Abstract

In this letter, we report the growth of the self-catalyzed GaP nanowires with a high concentration of wurtzite phase by molecular beam epitaxy. Formation of rotational twins and wurtzite polymorph in vertical nanowires was observed by the developed a complex approach based on the transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction method. Microstructural analysis performed by high resolution transmission electron microscopy and micro-Raman spectroscopy gives us insights on the nanowire formation mechanism and vibrational properties of nanowires with mixed crystal phase. We obtained wurtzite polytype segments with thicknesses lying in the range from several tens up to 500 nm. The results of the work open new perspectives for high phase purity phosphide NWs synthesis and its fast investigation with XRD technique using a laboratory X-Ray source.