Structural and chemical evolution of the spontaneous core-shell structures of AlxGa1-xN/GaN nanowires.

A study by electron microscopy techniques of the structural and compositional properties of Al x Ga1-x N/GaN nanowire (NW) heterostructures on Si(111) is presented. Al x Ga1-x N depositions grown without catalyst by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy were designed to form NWs in the range of 0.20