Silicon porosification: state of the art

G Korotcenkov, BK Cho - Critical Reviews in Solid State and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This review is devoted to the analysis of the problems related to fabrication of the Si porous
layers. The review was motivated by a great interest to Si-based porous materials from nano …

Chemical reduction of three-dimensional silica micro-assemblies into microporous silicon replicas

Z Bao, MR Weatherspoon, S Shian, Y Cai, PD Graham… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
The carbothermal reduction of silica into silicon requires the use of temperatures well above
the silicon melting point (≥ 2,000° C). Solid silicon has recently been generated directly …

In vivo time-gated fluorescence imaging with biodegradable luminescent porous silicon nanoparticles

L Gu, DJ Hall, Z Qin, E Anglin, J Joo, DJ Mooney… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Fluorescence imaging is one of the most versatile and widely used visualization methods in
biomedical research. However, tissue autofluorescence is a major obstacle confounding …

Development of massively parallel electron beam direct write lithography using active-matrix nanocrystalline-silicon electron emitter arrays

M Esashi, A Kojima, N Ikegami, H Miyaguchi… - Microsystems & …, 2015 - nature.com
Nanoscale lithographic technologies have been intensively studied for the development of
the next generation of semiconductor manufacturing practices. While mask-less/direct-write …

Enzyme biosensor systems based on porous silicon photoluminescence for detection of glucose, urea and heavy metals

O Syshchyk, VA Skryshevsky, OO Soldatkin… - Biosensors and …, 2015 - Elsevier
A phenomenon of changes in photoluminescence of porous silicon at variations in medium
pH is proposed to be used as a basis for the biosensor system development. The method of …

Electrically driven hybrid Si/III-V Fabry-Pérot lasers based on adiabatic mode transformers

B Ben Bakir, A Descos, N Olivier, D Bordel, P Grosse… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We report the first demonstration of an electrically driven hybrid silicon/III–V laser based on
adiabatic mode transformers. The hybrid structure is formed by two vertically superimposed …

Silicon nanocrystals and their composites: syntheses, fluorescence mechanisms, and biological applications

J Liang, C Huang, X Gong - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Due to excellent fluorescence intensity, low toxicity, good biocompatibility and stability,
silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs) and Si NCs-based composites have attracted extensive …

Enhanced photoluminescence from Si nano-organosols by functionalization with alkenes and their size evolution

SM Liu, Yang, S Sato, K Kimura - Chemistry of Materials, 2006 - ACS Publications
Silicon nanoparticles ranging from 2 to 16 nm were synthesized by a facile wet chemical
route, in which SiO amorphous powder was annealed at 1000° C, etched in hydrofluoric …

Towards monolithic integration of germanium light sources on silicon chips

S Saito, AZ Al-Attili, K Oda… - … Science and Technology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Germanium (Ge) is a group-IV indirect band gap semiconductor, and therefore bulk Ge
cannot emit light efficiently. However, the direct band gap energy is close to the indirect one …

Light emission from silicon-rich nitride nanostructures

L Dal Negro, JH Yi, LC Kimerling, S Hamel… - Applied physics …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Light-emitting Si-rich silicon nitride (SRN) films were fabricated by plasma enhanced
chemical vapor deposition followed by low temperature (500–900 C) annealing. The optical …