With the help of porous silicon, you can expect to see significant technological breakthroughs in a range of fields, including electronics, consumer goods, solar power, and medicine, just to name a few. The resulting layer had a porosity of 76% and a dendritic structure as. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the. It is hence interesting to see if porous silicon could be used as an optical material in the terahertz 1. In this work, the nanocrystalline porous silicon ps films is prepared by.
In this work, we report on the difference of mechanical stress in free standing and attached porous silicon membranes. Investigation of pristine and oxidized porous silicon. The inset is an optical image of a water droplet on the surface. Thesis porous silicon perez free ebook download as pdf file. Porous silicon resources sailor research group home. Application of porous silicon in terahertz technology. We go by zhe chuan feng porous silicon djvu, pdf, epub, txt, dr. Porous silicon has proved to be an interesting optical material for near and mid infrared applications for its potential in. A description of many of these processes has been recently reported canham, 2018. Porous silicon is one of the most exciting nanomaterials available to researchers around the world. Synthesis, integration, and properties hongjie dai department of chemistry, stanford university, stanford, california 94305 received january 23, 2002 abstract synthesis of carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition over patterned catalyst arrays leads to nanotubes grown from specific sites on surfaces.
Porous silicon was discovered by accident in 1956 by arthur uhlir jr. However, a survey of porous silicon fabrication methods has not been published even though. Mechanical stress relief in porous silicon free standing membranes romain guider,1, cristina traversa 1 and paolo bettotti 1 nanoscience laboratory, department of physics, university of trento, via sommarive 14, 38123 povo tn, italy romain. Fabrication and characterization of a palladiumporous. Henstock bsc mphil phd school of biomedical sciences medical school university of nottingham nottingham uk thesis submitted to the university of nottingham for the degree of doctor of philosophy june 2009.
This thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the. Porous silicon zhe chuan feng, r tsu bok inbunden, 1994. Porous silicon ps has been fabricated by photoelectrochemical etching. Chemical, morphological and electrical properties of porous silicon. This thesis work concerns a particular type of material for the testbeds. The wafers were cleaned by using solvent clean method to remove oil and organic residue that is on its surface. Dielectric properties of porous silicon for use as a. Porous silicon is a spongelike structure of monocrystalline silicon which although accidentally discovered, soon became one of the most wellresearched silicon structures. This paper, a little unconventional, is written as a reflection of how the author organizes and thinks through his topic. Polycaprolactone composites for orthopaedic tissue engineering dr. Porous silicon has been known for more than 35 years but only recently it has been recognised that the optical properties of porous silicon are drastically different from those of crystalline bulk silicon. The work in this thesis concentrated on processing and diagnosing porous silicon nanocrystallites that have novel chemical, structural and photoluminescent properties. Early results connecting to psms are published in my diploma thesis s9.
Photoluminescence of porous silicon prepared by chemical etching method 228 experimental the porous silicon was fabricated by using the light doped ptype silicon wafer, where the dopant was boron. The electrolytic solution was a mixture of hf and ethanol 3 etoh99. Fabrication and characterization of porous silicon layer. Control of pore characteristics of porous silicon using nontoxic electrochemical etching for photovoltaics and supercapacitor applications utpal saha. Hydrogen has potential to be used as an alternative to traditional energy sources in near future. The resonating modes of porous silicon appear in the nearinfrared range. By means of electrochemical treatment, crystalline silicon can be permeated with tiny, nanostructured pores that entirely change the characteristics and properties of the material. In particular, i focused my final dissertation thesis on the synthesis and study of a new class of carbonsilicon nanocomposites, produced by a recently discovered carbonization chemistry of porous silicon. In this work, we report on the difference of mechanical stress in free standing and attached porous silicon. Fabrication and characterization of a palladium porous silicon layer nicholas lui a scientific paper can be considered a journey into the logic and mind of the scientist who performed the experiment. In this chapter, the porous silicon formation process in explained. Study of the properties of the porous silicon pynthesized by ag assisted electrolysis etching madhavi karanam1,a, mohan oao g.
Figure figure3 3 shows the optical transmission spectrum of a single porous silicon particle. Thesis submitted to the university of nottingham for the degree of doctor of philosophy. Sciences has been doing research in the field of porous silicon for more than 15 years, however, multilayer structures has been investigating only since 2000. So whether itching to heap porous silicon pdf, in that complication you forthcoming on to the show website. This thesis focuses on the synthesis of silica based porous. The dependence of the pore morphology on sample orientation is just as complex for other. Sailor has been working in the porous silicon field for 20 years. Different to the case of polycrystalline silicon colloids, the transmittance spectra of these particles could not be fitted to the mie theory assuming a simple silicon colloid model with a homogenous value of the. Pdf the fabrication of porous silicon by electrochemical etching.
Porous silicon shows an increased bandgap and efficient roomtemperature photoluminescence in the visible. This is the bible for porous silicon researchersa collection of chapters written by all of the leading experts in the field of porous silicon, comprehensively covering fabrication, properties, characterization, processing, and applications of porous silicon. Optical properties of size selected nanocrystallites in. Control of pore characteristics of porous silicon using. At the time, the ulhirs were in the process of developing a technique for polishing and shaping the surfaces of silicon and germanium. Lo, application of porous silicon in terahertz technology, phd electrical and computer engineering, university of maryland 2010. Porous silicon polycaprolactone composites for orthopaedic tissue engineering. Masters thesis, university of mumbai, mumbai, india, 2007. Porous silicon technology for integrated microsystems digital. However, it was found that under several conditions a crude product in the form of thick black, red or brown film were formed on. Mechanical stress relief in porous silicon free standing. Chapter 2 fundamentals of porous silicon and applications. Porous silicon has been fabricated by more than 30 different techniques in the last 50 years. Finally, i acknowledge kun qin for being my science buddy, my sports mentor, and my.
The beauty of the porous silicon process is that depending on the mix of chemistry and levels of applied current, the pores or porous surface can be finely tuned altering the refractive index, volume density, surface area and overall porosity from a bulk silicon wafer to a silicon sponge layer or all the way to a silicon cloud or web. Fabrication and characterization of macroporous silicon. Porous silica based nanomaterials are rapidly growing in importance because of their many applications in a wide variety of fields. Targets our research institute mfa has set the goal towards the investigation of porous silicon multilayers. The root mean square rms roughness of the porous silicon layer is found to be around 47.
Current density pdf 449kb sizes 0 downloads 0 views. We wish be selfsatisfied whether you move ahead in progress smooth anew. Investigation of pristine and oxidized porous silicon academic dissertation to be presented with the assent of the faculty of technology, university of oulu, for public discussion in raahensali auditorium l10, linnanmaa, on july 1st, 2005, at. The fabrication of porous silicon by electrochemical etching with photo assisted. One prominent example of this can be seen in the interaction of porous silicon with living cells, which can be totally unwilling to settle on smooth silicon surfaces but readily adhere to porous. Its large surface area within a small volume, its controllable pore.
The effect of porous silicon film thickness on the propagation of surface plasmons is explained theoretically in this thesis and is found to be in good agreement with experimental results. This thesis is presented for the degree of doctor of philosophy from the university of western australia. The ability to suppress phonon propagation in nanostructured silicon, which has a bulk phonon mean free path 300 nm at 300 k, has raised substantial interest as an ultralow. Representative sem image of the porous silicon with vertically aligned straight pores. Porous silicon is a very promising material due to its excellent mechanical and thermal properties, its obvious compatibility with siliconbased microelectronics 17 and its low cost. But it will require a safe, cheap, and e ective storage media to boost hydrogen as an energy carrier. Engineering porous silicon photonic structures towards fast and reliable optical biosensing by yiliang zhao dissertation.
They were trying to develop an electrochemical method to machine silicon wafers for use in microelectronic circuits. Study of the properties of the porous silicon synthesized. Influence of illumination on porous silicon formed by photo. The porous structure formation was confirmed using xrd and afm studies. Chemical surface modification of porous silicon nanoparticles for cancer therapy changfang wang academic dissertation to be presented, with the permission of the faculty of pharmacy of the university of helsinki, for public examination in lecture room auditorium 1, infocenter korona, viikinkaari 11, on 2nd of march 2015, at 12.
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