Long germanium nanowires prepared by electrochemical etching

C Fang, H Föll, J Carstensen - Nano letters, 2006 - ACS Publications
Germanium (Ge) nanowires have been produced by electrochemical etching of single-
crystalline n-type Ge {100} in a HCl-containing aqueous electrolyte. Macropores could be …

Templated germanium nanowire synthesis using oriented mesoporous organosilicate thin films

H Jagannathan, M Deal, Y Nishi, HC Kim… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
The authors report on a technique of combining low temperature nanowire synthesis with
self-assembly of block copolymers in order to obtain a controlled array of nanowires. An …

Preparation of a porous nanostructured germanium from GeO 2 via a “reduction–alloying–dealloying” approach

H Yin, W Xiao, X Mao, H Zhu, D Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We present here a controllable and affordable preparation of porous nanostructured
germaniums with interesting photo-responsive properties from GeO2 powder through an …

Nanoscale morphology tuning of mesoporous Ge: electrochemical mechanisms

S Tutashkonko, S Alekseev, T Nychyporuk - Electrochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
The extended analysis of influence of the surface hydrogen passivation degree on
morphology of mesoporous Ge (PGe) formed by Bipolar Electrochemical Etching technique …

Electrodeposition of protocrystalline germanium from supercritical difluoromethane

CY Cummings, PN Bartlett, D Pugh, G Reid… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We report results for the electrochemistry of the germanium (II) tri‐halide anions,[GeCl3]−,[
GeBr3]− and [GeI3]−, in supercritical difluoromethane containing 60 mm [NnBu4][BF4] at …

Rapid formation of single crystalline Ge nanowires by anodic metal assisted etching

SJ Rezvani, N Pinto, L Boarino - CrystEngComm, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Germanium nanowires are produced by a novel approach, combining two well known
electrochemical and metal assisted chemical etching. The metal assisted etching procedure …

Black germanium produced by inductively coupled plasma etching

S Schicho, A Jaouad, C Sellmer, D Morris, V Aimez… - Materials Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
We report on a lithography-free self-organized inductively coupled plasma (ICP) etching
process to manufacture nanostructured Ge surfaces with a strong absorbance in the visible …

Germanium electrodeposition into porous silicon for silicon-germanium alloying

N Grevtsov, E Chubenko, V Bondarenko, I Gavrilin… - Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
A method of germanium electrodeposition from a GeO 2-based aqueous solution into the
pore channels of anodic mesoporous silicon formed on n-type highly-doped (100) silicon …

Anti-reflective porous Ge by open-circuit and lithography-free metal-assisted chemical etching

YY Zhang, SH Shin, HJ Kang, S Jeon, SH Hwang… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Porous Ge (PGe) layer is formed on single-crystalline Ge (c-Ge) as well as in a
releasable form (eg, free-standing PGe) by lithography-free metal-assisted chemical etching …

Investigation of microstructure and morphology for the Ge on porous silicon/Si substrate hetero-structure obtained by molecular beam epitaxy

S Gouder, R Mahamdi, M Aouassa, S Escoubas… - Thin Solid Films, 2014 - Elsevier
Thick porous silicon (PS) buffer layers are used as sacrificial layers to epitaxially grow
planar and fully relaxed Ge membranes. The single crystal Ge layers have been deposited …