Narrowing the length distributions of self-assisted III-V nanowires by nucleation antibunching

Abstract

Size homogeneity of nanostructures is highly desirable for improving collective properties within their ensembles and crucial for the resulting device performance. Here, we show how the length distributions of self-assisted III-V nanowires can be narrowed to sub-Poissonian shape by a specific effect of nucleation antibunching that arises due to a limited number of the group V atoms in a catalyst droplet.