尽管在半导体的可能的非同类的紧张效果被调查了因为在一半上世纪和紧张坡度能每在灵活 nanostructures 的测微计是超过 1% ,我们仍然缺乏他们对精力乐队的影响的理解。这里,我们进行紧张坡度的系统的阴极射线发光光谱学研究在在低温度的有弹性地弄弯的 CdS nanowires 的导致的激子精力移动,并且发现在弄弯的 nanowires 的激子精力红移动与紧张坡度成正比,格子失真的一个索引。密度功能的计算在弄弯的 nanostructures 显示出乐队差距减小的一样的趋势并且揭示内在的机制。半导体的乐队差距上的重要线性紧张坡度效果应该在在 nanoelectronics 调节光电子的性质的方法上打开新灯。
Although possible non-homogeneous strain effects in semiconductors have been investigated for over a half century and the strain-gradient can be over 1% per micrometer in flexible nanostructures, we still lack an understanding of their influence on energy bands. Here we conduct a systematic cathodoluminescence spectroscopy study of the strain-gradient induced exciton energy shift in elastically curved CdS nanowires at low temperature, and find that the red-shift of the exciton energy in the curved nanowires is proportional to the strain-gradient, an index of lattice distortion. Density functional calculations show the same trend of band gap reduction in curved nanostructures and reveal the underlying mechanism. The significant linear straingradient effect on the band gap of semiconductors should shed new light on ways to tune optical-electronic properties in nanoelectronics.