Black silicon (BSi) represents a very active research area in renewable energy materials.
The rise of BSi as a focus of study for its fundamental properties and potentially lucrative …

This article is an overview of the present and ongoing developments in the field of
nanomaterial-based sensors for enabling fast, relatively inexpensive and minimally (or non-) …

The application of gas discharge plasmas has assumed an important place in many
manufacturing processes. Plasma methods contribute significantly to the economic …

Production of high-aspect-ratio silicon (Si) nanowire-based anode for lithium ion batteries is
challenging particularly in terms of controlling wire property and geometry to improve the …

This article presents an overview of the fabrication methods of black silicon, their resulting
morphologies, and a quantitative comparison of their optoelectronic properties. To perform …

Many different gas discharges and plasmas exhibit bistable states under a given set of
conditions, and the history-dependent hysteresis that is manifested by intensive quantities of …

Mid‐infrared materials antireflection is in high demand for high‐powered or ultra‐broadband
coherent light sources, where conventional antireflection coatings cannot be reliably …

Low temperature plasma (LTP)-based synthesis of advanced materials has played a
transformational role in multiple industries, including the semiconductor industry, liquid …

Black Silicon nanostructures are fabricated by Inductively Coupled Plasma Reactive Ion
Etching (ICP-RIE) in a gas mixture of SF 6 and O 2 at non-cryogenic temperatures. The …

Plasma‐surface interactions are in general highly complex due to the interplay of many
concurrent processes. Molecular dynamics simulations provide insight in some of these …