Silicon Nanowires
Optical Properties of Silicon Nanowires Fabricated by Environment Friendly Chemistry
... years, silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are of great interest because of their potential applications in micro- and optoelectronics [1, 2], photonics [3], photovoltaics [4, 5], and sensorics ...porous ...
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Silicon nanowires prepared by electron beam evaporation in ultrahigh vacuum
... One-dimensional (1D) nanomaterials have stimulated great interest due to their importance in basic academic research and potential technology applications [1,2]. It is widely accepted that 1D nanomaterials not only play ...
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An alternative route for the synthesis of silicon nanowires via porous anodic alumina masks
... of silicon substrates as source for the Si NWs growth has recently been reported ...the nanowires is adjustable, controlling the growth time ...of silicon, avoid- ing the use of complex systems with ...
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Preparation and characterization of silicon nanowires catalyzed by aluminum
... Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) were grown on indium tin oxide coated glass substrates by a pulsed plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PPECVD) method using aluminum as a ...the silicon ...
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Effect of etching time on morphological, optical, and electronic properties of silicon nanowires
... Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) have attracted much atten- tion in the recent years due to their importance in the field of electronic devices and photovoltaic ...
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Field emission enhancement of Au Si nano particle decorated silicon nanowires
... nano-particle-decorated silicon nanowire arrays have been fabricated by Au film deposition on silicon nanowire array substrates and then post-thermal annealing under hydrogen ...as-grown silicon ...
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Atomic scale investigation of silicon nanowires and nanoclusters
... p-type silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are elaborated by chemical vapor deposition method using gold as catalyst, silane as silicon precursor, and diborane as dopant ...discussed. Silicon ...
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Fabrication of Straight Silicon Nanowires and Their Conductive Properties
... Silicon nanowires (Si NWs) have many unique elec- tronic, optoelectronic, and mechanical properties owing to their anisotropic morphology, high surface-to-volume ratio, tailorable bandgap, and quantum ...
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Effects of Defects on the Mechanical Properties of Kinked Silicon Nanowires
... Kinked silicon nanowires (KSiNWs) have many special properties that make them attractive for a number of applications. The mechanical properties of KSiNWs play important roles in the performance of sensors. ...
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Enhancement on Coulombic Efficiency of Silicon Nanowires with Interconnected Structure
... Interconnected silicon nanowires (Si NWs) as anode materials for lithium ion batteries are synthesized on Au-coated stainless-steel foil by the process of Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) based on ...
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Area Effect of Reflectance in Silicon Nanowires Grown by Electroless Etching
... that silicon nanowires have a great potential to be utilized in photon absorption for solar cells due to the low optical reflectance in SiNWs at certain visible ...
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Formation of Silicon Nanowires by CVD Using Gold Catalysts at Low Temperatures
... However, silicon nanowires were radially produced from 3 mm-square gold dots and most nanowires extended in different directions against the gas flow ...
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Design of a Compact Polarization Splitter by Using Identical Coupled Silicon Nanowires
... on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform is ...identical silicon nanowires, which can be easily fabricated by using standard Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology and fully ...
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Growth and characterization of silicon nanowires for solar cell applications
... Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) have received considerable attention as base materials for third-generation photovoltaic (PV) devices because they lend themselves to large- scale production with enhanced light ...
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Simulation of Chirped Pulse Propagation in Silicon Nanowires: Shape and Spectrum Analysis
... Silicon nanowires have great potential for exhibiting the nonlinear effects and they are good candidates for ap- plications in very small-scale photonic ...
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Micro ultracapacitors with highly doped silicon nanowires electrodes
... rate silicon based micro-ultracapacitors should facilitate ...porous silicon nanowires (SiNWs) [10], porous silicon coated with gold [11,12], SiNWs coated with NiO [13,14], or SiC [15] have ...
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Electrical Contacts on Silicon Nanowires Produced by Metal Assisted Etching: a Comparative Approach
... Observing silicon nanowires with ionic beam is required for aligning and patterning Pt electrodes. However, even a moderate exposure to the ionic beam can dramatically contaminate the surface. To reproduce ...
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Electronic Structures and Band Gap of Doped Silicon Nanowires (SiNWs)
... of Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) for different crystal orientation, cross-sectional size and shape by using nearest neighbor sp 3 d 5 s* atomic orbital ...are Silicon and at the end the black atoms are ...
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Mechanical Properties of Silicon Nanowires
... Abstract Nanowires have been taken much attention as a nanoscale building block, which can perform the excellent mechanical function as an electromechanical ...of silicon nanowires in order to ...
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Electrochemical characterisation of silicon nanowires
... on nanowires was to be done under daily supervision of Songyue Chen, a PhD-student who had already done her master’s thesis on nanowires and was now working the same subject for her ...
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