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Porous Semiconductors - Science and Technology 2012

Prof Andres Cantarero

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  1. The aim of this work is to optimize the different parameters for realization of an absorbing cavity to measure the incident absolute laser energy. Electrochemical oxidation is the background process that allow...

    Authors: Sonia Ben Salem, Zahra Ben Achour, Kamel Thamri and Oualid Touayar
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2014 9:577
  2. We present molecular dynamics simulation of phonon thermal conductivity of semiconductor nanoribbons with an account for phonon quantum statistics. In our semiquantum molecular dynamics simulation, dynamics of...

    Authors: Yuriy A Kosevich, Alexander V Savin and Andrés Cantarero
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2013 8:7
  3. The photoluminescence emission of nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide films formed in phosphoric acid is studied in order to explore their defect-based subband electronic structure. Different excitation wavelengt...

    Authors: Abolghasem Nourmohammadi, Saeid Jalali Asadabadi, Mohammad Hasan Yousefi and Majid Ghasemzadeh
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:689
  4. Transmission diffraction gratings operating at 1,565 nm based on multilayer porous silicon films are modeled, fabricated, and tested. Features down to 2 μm have been patterned into submicron-thick mesoporous f...

    Authors: Meifang Lai, Gayathri M Sridharan, Giacinta Parish, Shanti Bhattacharya and Adrian Keating
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:645
  5. Structural, compositional, morphological, and optical properties of silicon nanocrystal (Si-nc) embedded in a matrix of non-stoichiometric silicon oxide (SiO x ) films were studi...

    Authors: J Alberto Luna López, J Carrillo López, D E Vázquez Valerdi, G García Salgado, T Díaz-Becerril, A Ponce Pedraza and F J Flores Gracia
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:604
  6. Because of its optical and electrical properties, large surfaces, and compatibility with standard silicon processes, porous silicon is a very interesting material in photovoltaic and microelectromechanical sys...

    Authors: Roberto Martini, Valerie Depauw, Mario Gonzalez, Kris Vanstreels, Kris Van Nieuwenhuysen, Ivan Gordon and Jef Poortmans
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:597
  7. Nanoporous carbon microfibers were grown by chemical vapor deposition in the vapor-liquid solid mode using different fluid hydrocarbons as precursors in different proportions. The as-grown samples were further...

    Authors: Mario Culebras, Antonio Madroñero, Andres Cantarero, José Maria Amo, Concepción Domingo and Antonio López
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:588
  8. We present in this paper a novel application of porous silicon (PS) for low-power alternating current (AC) switches such as triode alternating current devices (TRIACs) frequently used to control small applianc...

    Authors: Samuel Menard, Angélique Fèvre, Damien Valente, Jérôme Billoué and Gaël Gautier
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:566
  9. Three-dimensional submicrometric structures and biomolecular patterns have been fabricated on a porous silicon film by an electron beam-based functionalization method. The immobilized proteins act as a passiva...

    Authors: Dario Imbraguglio, Andrea Mario Giovannozzi, Annalisa Nastro and Andrea Mario Rossi
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:530
  10. We study the structure and optical properties of arrays of silicon nanowires (SiNWs) with a mean diameter of approximately 100 nm and length of about 1–25 μm formed on crystalline silicon (c-Si) substrates by ...

    Authors: Liubov A Osminkina, Kirill A Gonchar, Vladimir S Marshov, Konstantin V Bunkov, Dmitry V Petrov, Leonid A Golovan, Florian Talkenberg, Vladimir A Sivakov and Victor Yu Timoshenko
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:524
  11. To study the influence of localized porous silicon regions on radiofrequency performances of passive devices, inductors were integrated on localized porous silicon regions, full porous silicon sheet, bulk sili...

    Authors: Marie Capelle, Jérôme Billoué, Patrick Poveda and Gaël Gautier
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:523
  12. We have developed a method for obtaining a direct pattern of silver nanoparticles (NPs) on porous silicon (p-Si) by means of inkjet printing (IjP) of a silver salt. Silver NPs were obtained by p-Si mediated in-si...

    Authors: Alessandro Chiolerio, Alessandro Virga, Paolo Pandolfi, Paola Martino, Paola Rivolo, Francesco Geobaldo and Fabrizio Giorgis
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:502
  13. We have recently developed a new type of porous silicon we name as porous silicon colloids. They consist of almost perfect spherical silicon nanoparticles with a very smooth surface, able to scatter (and also tra...

    Authors: Fernando Ramiro-Manzano, Roberto Fenollosa, Elisabet Xifré-Pérez, Moises Garín and Francisco Meseguer
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:497
  14. In the present work, the characterization of cobalt-porous silicon (Co-PSi) hybrid systems is performed by a combination of magnetic, spectroscopic, and structural techniques. The Co-PSi structures are compose...

    Authors: Álvaro Muñoz-Noval, Darío Gallach, Miguel Ángel García, Vicente Ferro-Llanos, Pilar Herrero, Kazuhiro Fukami, Yukio H Ogata, Vicente Torres-Costa, Raúl J Martín-Palma, Aurelio Ciment-Font and Miguel Manso-Silván
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:495
  15. γ-Al2O3 is a porous metal oxide and described as a defective spinel with some cationic vacancies. In this work, we calculate the electronic density of states and band structure for the bulk of this material. The ...

    Authors: Mohsen Yazdanmehr, Saeid Jalali Asadabadi, Abolghasem Nourmohammadi, Majid Ghasemzadeh and Mahmood Rezvanian
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:488
  16. This paper is dedicated to study the thin polycrystalline films of semiconductor chalcogenide materials (CdS, CdSe, and PbS) obtained by ammonia-free chemical bath deposition. The obtained material is of polyc...

    Authors: Yuri V Vorobiev, Paul P Horley, Jorge Hernández-Borja, Hilda E Esparza-Ponce, Rafael Ramírez-Bon, Pavel Vorobiev, Claudia Pérez and Jesús González-Hernández
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:483
  17. The application of porous silicon as a template for the fabrication of nanosized copper objects is reported. Three different types of nanostructures were formed by displacement deposition of copper on porous s...

    Authors: Hanna Bandarenka, Sergey Redko, Aleksandr Smirnov, Andrei Panarin, Sergei Terekhov, Paolo Nenzi, Marco Balucani and Vitaly Bondarenko
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:477
  18. A detailed study of the pore-widening rate of nanoporous anodic alumina layers as a function of the anodization voltage was carried out. The study focuses on samples produced under the same electrolyte and con...

    Authors: Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman, Enric Garcia-Caurel, Abel Santos, Lluis F Marsal, Josep Pallarès and Josep Ferré-Borrull
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:474
  19. A computational study of the dependence of the electronic band structure and density of states on the chemical surface passivation of cubic porous silicon carbide (pSiC) was performed using ab initio density func...

    Authors: Alejandro Trejo, Marbella Calvino, Estrella Ramos and Miguel Cruz-Irisson
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:471
  20. Porous silicon layers were elaborated by electrochemical etching of heavily doped p-type silicon substrates. Metallization of porous silicon was carried out by immersion of substrates in diluted aqueous soluti...

    Authors: Sonia Ben Slama, Messaoud Hajji and Hatem Ezzaouia
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:464
  21. It was reported that during silicon etching, silver was subjected to have a controversial role. Some researchers debate that silver protects silicon, and, at the same time, other ones confirm that silver catal...

    Authors: Manel Abouda-Lachiheb, Nesma Nafie and Mongi Bouaicha
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:455
  22. A simple method for the fabrication of porous silicon (Si) by metal-assisted etching was developed using gold nanoparticles as catalytic sites. The etching masks were prepared by spin-coating of colloidal gold...

    Authors: Sebastian P Scheeler, Simon Ullrich, Stefan Kudera and Claudia Pacholski
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:450
  23. A novel fabrication method of Si photonic slabs based on the selective formation of porous silicon is reported. Free-standing square lattices of cylindrical air holes embedded in a Si matrix can be achieved by...

    Authors: Gonzalo Recio-Sánchez, Zhiya Dang, Vicente Torres-Costa, Mark BH Breese and Raul-Jose Martín-Palma
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:449
  24. A significant enhancement of the photoluminescence (PL) efficiency is observed for aqueous suspensions of porous silicon nanoparticles (PSiNPs) coated by bioresorbable polymers, i.e., polylactic-co-glycolic ac...

    Authors: Maxim B Gongalsky, Alexander Yu Kharin, Liubov A Osminkina, Victor Yu Timoshenko, Jinyoung Jeong, Han Lee and Bong Hyun Chung
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:446
  25. In the frame of this work, the aim was to create a superparamagnetic nanocomposite system with a maximized magnetic moment when magnetized by an external field and a blocking temperature far below room tempera...

    Authors: Klemens Rumpf, Petra Granitzer, Puerto M Morales, Peter Poelt and Michael Reissner
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:445
  26. Porous silicon has been prepared using a vapor-etching based technique on a commercial silicon powder. Strong visible emission was observed in all samples. Obtained silicon powder with a thin porous layer at t...

    Authors: Marouan Khalifa, Messaoud Hajji and Hatem Ezzaouia
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:444
  27. Multifunctional porous Si nanostructure is designed to optically monitor enzymatic activity of horseradish peroxidase. First, an oxidized PSi optical nanostructure, a Fabry-Pérot thin film, is synthesized and ...

    Authors: Giorgi Shtenberg, Naama Massad-Ivanir, Sinem Engin, Michal Sharon, Ljiljana Fruk and Ester Segal
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:443
  28. We report the experimental observation of the novel phenomenon of the resistivity decrease in porous PbTe layers during the pore formation process. Investigations were performed on the n-PbTe films with 2.3-μm...

    Authors: Sergey P Zimin, Egor S Gorlachev and Fedor O Skok
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:442
  29. The aim of this work is to determine the thermal conductivity of mesoporous silicon (PoSi) by fitting the experimental results with simulated ones. The electrothermal response (resistance versus applied curren...

    Authors: Laurent Siegert, Marie Capelle, Fabrice Roqueta, Vladimir Lysenko and Gael Gautier
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:427
  30. We have characterized the structure and luminescence properties for two-component material composed of nanocrystalline cellulose and nanocrystalline (less to 100 nm) silicon powder. An efficient and stable pho...

    Authors: Vitaly Pikulev, Svetlana Loginova and Valery Gurtov
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:426
  31. We study the electrical characteristics of macroporous silicon/transparent conductor oxide junctions obtained by the deposition of fluorine doped-SnO2 onto macroporous silicon thin films using the spray pyrolysis...

    Authors: Felipe A Garcés, Raul Urteaga, Leandro N Acquaroli, Roberto R Koropecki and Roberto D Arce
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:419
  32. A method for fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) silicon nanostructures based on selective formation of porous silicon using ion beam irradiation of bulk p-type silicon followed by electrochemical etching is...

    Authors: Zhiya Dang, Mark BH Breese, Gonzalo Recio-Sánchez, Sara Azimi, Jiao Song, Haidong Liang, Agnieszka Banas, Vicente Torres-Costa and Raúl José Martín-Palma
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:416
  33. Theoretical demonstration and experimental evidence of photon Bloch oscillations and Wannier-Stark ladders (WSLs) in dual-periodical (DP) multilayers, based on porous silicon, are presented. An introduction of...

    Authors: J Octavio Estevez, Jesús Arriaga, Antonio Mendez-Blas, Edgar Reyes-Ayona, José Escorcia and Vivechana Agarwal
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:413
  34. Photoacoustic effect in nanocomposite structure ‘porous silicon-liquid’ has been investigated. Main mechanisms involved in the formation of photoacoustic signal in such structures have been experimentally stud...

    Authors: Dmitriy Andrusenko, Mykola Isaiev, Andrey Kuzmich, Vladimir Lysenko and Roman Burbelo
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:411
  35. The low level doping of a selective emitter by etch back is an easy and low cost process to obtain a better blue response from a solar cell. This work suggests that the contact resistance of the selective emit...

    Authors: Kyuwan Song, Bonggi Kim, Hoongjoo Lee, Youn-Jung Lee, Cheolmin Park, Nagarajan Balaji, Minkyu Ju, Jaewoo Choi and Junsin Yi
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:410
  36. Isothermal close space sublimation, a simple and low-cost physical vapour transport technique, was used to infiltrate ZnTe and CdSe semiconductors in porous silicon. The structure of the embedded materials was...

    Authors: Vicente Torres-Costa, Claudia de Melo, Aurelio Climent-Font, Fernando Argulló-Rueda and Osvaldo de Melo
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:409
  37. Unlike the trace minerals iron, copper and zinc, the semiconductor silicon has not had its organoleptic properties assessed. Nanostructured silicon provides the nutrient orthosilicic acid through hydrolysis in...

    Authors: Qurrat Shabir, Cyrus Skaria, Heather O Brien, Armando Loni, Christian Barnett and Leigh Canham
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:407
  38. The morphological change of silicon macropore arrays formed by metal-assisted chemical etching using shape-controlled Au thin film arrays was investigated during anisotropic chemical etching in tetramethylammo...

    Authors: Hidetaka Asoh, Kosuke Fujihara and Sachiko Ono
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:406
  39. Porous silicon microcavity (PSiMc) structures were used to immobilize the photosynthetic reaction center (RC) purified from the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26. Two different binding methods were co...

    Authors: Kata Hajdu, Csilla Gergely, Marta Martin, László Zimányi, Vivechana Agarwal, Gabriela Palestino, Klára Hernádi, Zoltán Németh and László Nagy
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:400
  40. Analysis methods for electrochemical etching baths consisting of various concentrations of hydrofluoric acid (HF) and an additional organic surface wetting agent are presented. These electrolytes are used for ...

    Authors: Julia B Nehmann, Sarah Kajari-Schröder and Detlef W Bahnemann
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:398
  41. Silicon nanoparticles of three types (oxide-terminated silicon nanospheres, micron-sized hydrogen-terminated porous silicon grains and micron-size oxide-terminated porous silicon grains) were incorporated into...

    Authors: Jamaree Amonkosolpan, Daniel Wolverson, Bernhard Goller, Sergej Polisski, Dmitry Kovalev, Matthew Rollings, Michael D W Grogan and Timothy A Birks
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:397
  42. The localized irradiation of Si allows a precise patterning at the microscale of nanostructured materials such as porous silicon (PS). PS patterns with precisely defined geometries can be fabricated using ion ...

    Authors: Esther Punzón-Quijorna, Vanessa Sánchez-Vaquero, Álvaro Muñoz-Noval, M Jesus Pérez-Roldán, Raúl J Martín-Palma, Francois Rossi, Aurelio Climent-Font, Miguel Manso-Silván, J Predestinacion García Ruiz and Vicente Torres-Costa
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:396
  43. We report the theoretical comparison of the omnidirectional photonic bandgap (OPBG) of one-dimensional dielectric photonic structures, using three different refractive index profiles: sinusoidal, Gaussian, and...

    Authors: Augusto David Ariza-Flores, Luis Manuel Gaggero-Sager and Vivechana Agarwal
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:391
  44. In this paper, we present the synthesis of self-organized TiO2 nanotube arrays formed by anodization of thin Ti film deposited on Si wafers by direct current (D.C.) sputtering. Organic electrolyte was used to dem...

    Authors: Karumbaiah N Chappanda, York R Smith, Swomitra K Mohanty, Loren W Rieth, Prashant Tathireddy and Mano Misra
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2012 7:388