Magnetotransport investigations of ultrafine single-crystalline bismuth nanowire arrays
- 14 September 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 73 (11) , 1589-1591
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.122213
Abstract
We have measured the magnetotransport properties of ultrafine single-crystalline Bi nanowire arrays embedded in a dielectric matrix. At low temperatures (T less than or equal to 50 K), the wire boundary scattering is shown to be the dominant scattering process for carriers. A reversal in the temperature dependence of the magnetoresistance was observed for wires with 65 nm average diameter relative to those with 109 nm average diameter when T less than or equal to 100 K. We attribute this difference to effects due to the quantization of the transverse momentum of the carriers, which results in a semimetal-semiconductor transition for Bi nanowires as the wire diameter becomes sufficiently small. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.Keywords
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