Silicon nanostructures exhibit promising application potentials in many fields in comparison
with their bulk counterpart or other semiconductor nanostructures. Therefore, the exploiting …

This review outlines the developments and recent progress in metal-assisted chemical
etching of silicon, summarizing a variety of fundamental and innovative processes and …

High aspect ratio nanostructuring requires high precision pattern transfer with highly
directional etching. In this work, we demonstrate the fabrication of structures with ultra-high …

Zr-based thin film metallic glasses appear as promising coatings for biomedical applications,
due to their microstructural and physicochemical properties. Materials used as medical …

Diffractive optics play a key role in hard X‐rays imaging for which many scientific,
technological, and biomedical applications exist. Herein, high‐aspect‐ratio microfabrication …

The metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) technique is commonly employed for texturing
the wafer surfaces when fabricating black silicon (BSi) solar cells and is considered to be a …

Metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) is a simple, low-cost and versatile method of
fabricating various silicon nanostructures. Due to the etching anisotropy of monocrystalline …

This paper reports investigation on hybrid micro/nanotextures for enhanced broadband
absorption in crystalline silicon (c-Si) for application in photovoltaics. Microscale pyramids …

A higher detection performance and stability are always pursued in the development of
photoelectric or photo-electrochemical devices, critical for their further commercial …

It is important to improve the efficiency of solar cells textured by the MACE method, and the
surface morphology has a significant effect on the efficiency. In this paper, we textured …