Synthesis of Narrow SnTe Nanowires Using Alloy Nanoparticles

Liu, Pengzi; Han, Hyeuk Jin; Wei, Julia; Hynek, David; Hart, James L.; Han, Myung Geun; Trimble, Christie Jordan; Williams, James; Zhu, Yimei; Cha, Judy J.

doi:10.1021/acsaelm.0c00740

Title: Synthesis of Narrow SnTe Nanowires Using Alloy Nanoparticles

Journal Article · Wed Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2020 · ACS Applied Electronic Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.0c00740· OSTI ID:1771133

Liu, Pengzi ^[1];

^[1]; Wei, Julia ^[2]; Hynek, David ^[1]; Hart, James L. ^[1];

^[3]; Trimble, Christie Jordan ^[4]; Williams, James ^[4];

^[3];

^[5]

Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States); Energy Sciences Inst., West Haven, CT (United States)
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Dept.
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States); Energy Sciences Inst., West Haven, CT (United States); Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (Canada)

Topological crystalline insulator tin telluride (SnTe) provides a rich playground to examine interactions of correlated electronic states, such as ferroelectricity, topological surface states, and superconductivity. The study of SnTe nanowires may lead to even richer physics owing to the one-dimensional (1D) confinement effect and an increased contribution from the topological surface states. Thus, for transport measurements, SnTe nanowires must be synthesized with reduced diameters and high crystalline quality to ensure 1D confinement and phase coherence of the topological surface electrons. Here, we report a facile growth method to produce narrow SnTe nanowires with a high yield using alloy nanoparticles as growth catalysts. The average diameter of the SnTe nanowires grown using alloy nanoparticles is 85 nm, nearly a factor of three reduction compared to the average diameter of 240 nm when using gold nanoparticles as growth catalysts. Transport measurements reveal the effect of the nanowire diameter on the residual resistance ratio and magnetoresistance. Particularly, the ferroelectric transition temperature for SnTe evolves systematically with the nanowire diameter. In situ cryogenic cooling of narrow SnTe nanowires in a transmission electron microscope directly reveals the cubic to rhombohedral structural transition, which is associated with the ferroelectric transition. Thus, these narrow SnTe nanowires represent a model system to study electronic states arising from 1D confinement, such as 1D topological superconductivity and potential multiband superconductivity.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; SC0014476; DMR-1743896; DMR1743913

OSTI ID:: 1771133

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1777275

Report Number(s):: BNL-221140-2021-JAAM; TRN: US2206886

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Electronic Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 1; ISSN 2637-6113

Publisher:: ACS PublicationsCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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