1. Electrochemical Nanostructuring of Semiconductors by Capillary-Cell Method
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A. V. Zoteev, T. I. Taurbayev, V. E. Nikulin, Victor Yu. Timoshenko, Z.Zh. Zhanabayev, K. A. Gonchar, and Yerzhan T. Taurbayev
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Materials science ,Photoluminescence ,Silicon ,Nanoporous ,Mechanical Engineering ,technology, industry, and agriculture ,Analytical chemistry ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Nanotechnology ,macromolecular substances ,equipment and supplies ,Isotropic etching ,Nanocrystalline material ,chemistry ,Mechanics of Materials ,Etching (microfabrication) ,General Materials Science ,Wafer ,Reactive-ion etching - Abstract
Wafers of silicon and compound semiconductors are nanostructured by using electrochemical or chemical etching (stain etching) in etching cell with electrolyte kept by capillary forces. Atomic force microscopy, infrared spectroscopy and Raman scattering methods reveale nanoporous and nanocrystalline structure of the treated surfaces. The formed porous semiconductors demonstrate efficient photoluminescence, which is controlled by etching parameters, i.e. current density, electrolyte content, etc. These results indicate good prospects of the employed capillary-cell method for preparing nanostructured porous materials with desired structure and optical properties.
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- 2010
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