A large amount of work world-wide has been directed towards obtaining an understanding
of the fundamental characteristics of porous Si. Much progress has been made following the …

The striking photoluminescence properties of porous silicon have attracted considerable
research interest since their discovery in 1990. Luminescence is due to excitonic …

This review is devoted to the analysis of the problems related to fabrication of the Si porous
layers. The review was motivated by a great interest to Si-based porous materials from nano …

Porous silicon nanostructures have attracted a great deal of interest during the past few
years, due to their many remarkable properties. The high-efficiency visible photo-and electro …

X-ray-diffraction observations of strains induced by vapor adsorption are reported for porous
silicon single-crystal samples. Two types of porous silicon (p and p+) with very different pore …

Young's modulus of porous silicon samples, with porosity ranging from 36% to 90%, is
measured by the nanoindentation technique. The analysis of the nanoindentation data …

Macroscopic strain experiments have revealed that silicon crystals traversed by parallel,
channel-like nanopores functionalized with the artificial muscle polymer polypyrrole (PPy) …

Mechanical properties of meso-porous silicon are studied using topographic measurements
and finite element simulations. Our approach is based on an original analysis of the strain at …

The presence of a parasitic surface film of 80 nm thickness has been observed by x-ray
reflectivity on the top of some p+ type porous silicon layers, related to a contamination of the …

A method for minimizing thermal effects on silicon-based photonic band-gap PBG structures
is demonstrated. The reflectance resonance positions of as-anodized one-dimensional …