Organic functionalization of non-oxidized silicon surfaces, while allowing for robust chemical
passivation of the inorganic substrate, is intended and expected to broaden the chemical …

Nanotechnology is a culmination of many facets of scientific and technological
developments in the nanorealm, including nanofabrication, nanomachineries, quantum …

Aqueous HF etching of silicon surfaces results in the removal of the surface oxide and
leaves behind silicon surfaces terminated by atomic hydrogen. The effect of varying the …

It may be argued that silicon, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and iron are among the most
important elements on our planet, because of their involvement in geological, biol-ical, and …

Nanostructured materials may be defined as those materials whose structural elements-
clusters, crystallites or molecules-have dimensions in the 1 to 100 nm range. The explosion …

The chemical modification of hydrogen-passivated n-Si (111) surfaces by a scanning
tunneling microscope (STM) operating in air is reported. The modified surface regions have …

Ab initio molecular-orbital theory is used to unravel the mechanism of HF etching leading to
hydrogen-passivated silicon surfaces as observed experimentally. Total-energy calculations …

Porous silicon exhibits extremely rich morphological features resulting from a set of very
complex reaction processes at the silicon/electrolyte interface. Numerous theories have …

Vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy has been used to investigate the hydrogen-
terminated Si (111) surfaces obtained upon dissolution of the native oxide in HF and NH, F …

Sequential surface reactions of trimethylaluminum and water vapor have been used to
deposit Al2O3 on Si (100) surfaces. The self‐limiting nature of the surface reactions allows …