A. A. Dadykin, Yu. N. Kozyrev, A. G. Naumovets, “Field electron emission from Ge-Si nanostructures with quantum dots”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2002, Volume 76, Issue 7,Pages <nobr>550

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Field electron emission from Ge-Si nanostructures with quantum dots

A. A. Dadykin^a, Yu. N. Kozyrev^b, A. G. Naumovets^a

^a Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev
^b Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Abstract: Self-assembled arrays of Ge-Si clusters with sizes of $\sim10\,$nm and a density of $\sim10^{10}\,$cm$^{-2}$ have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy. Stable steady-state field electron emission from such clusters has been observed and studied. The emission is characterized by resonance current peaks, which are explained by the quantization of the electron energy in nanoclusters. The estimation of the ground level energy from their emission measurements coincides with estimates obtained by other methods.

PACS: 68.55.-a, 81.15.-z

Received: 24.07.2002
Revised: 12.09.2002