Porous semiconductors: advanced material for gas sensor applications

G Korotcenkov, BK Cho - Critical Reviews in Solid State and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The present review article is devoted to the analysis of the problems related to the design of
gas sensors based on porous semiconductors (PS). The peculiarities of the semiconductor …

A porous silicon-based optical interferometric biosensor

VSY Lin, K Motesharei, KPS Dancil, MJ Sailor… - Science, 1997 - science.org
A biosensor has been developed based on induced wavelength shifts in the Fabry-Perot
fringes in the visible-light reflection spectrum of appropriately derivatized thin films of porous …

Hydrogen in porous silicon—a review

AI Manilov, VA Skryshevsky - Materials Science and Engineering: B, 2013 - Elsevier
This review is devoted to summarising the hydrogen-assisted properties and applications of
porous silicon (PS). The role of hydrogen as an intermediate product in silicon porosification …

Porous silicon—mechanisms of growth and applications

V Parkhutik - Solid-State Electronics, 1999 - Elsevier
The present state-of-the-art in understanding the mechanisms of the formation of porous
silicon (PS) and its physical properties is reviewed, with special emphasis on problems …

NO2 monitoring at room temperature by a porous silicon gas sensor

L Boarino, C Baratto, F Geobaldo, G Amato… - Materials Science and …, 2000 - Elsevier
A study on reactivity of p+ porous silicon layers (PSL) to different gas atmosphere has been
carried out. Substrate doping was 5–15 mΩ cm and 0.5 Ω cm, porosity ranged from 30 to …

Stable and efficient electroluminescence from a porous silicon‐based bipolar device

L Tsybeskov, SP Duttagupta, KD Hirschman… - Applied physics …, 1996 - pubs.aip.org
A complete process compatible with conventional Si technology has been developed in
order to produce a bipolar light‐emitting device. This device consists of a layer of light …

Fabrication of porous silicon filled Pd/SiC nanocauliflower thin films for high performance H2 gas sensor

A Kumar, A Kumar, R Chandra - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, we have fabricated the Pd decorated silicon carbide (SiC) nanocauliflowers
(NCs) thin films on electrochemically etched porous silicon (PS) substrate by DC magnetron …

Synthesis, optical properties, and chemical–biological sensing applications of one-dimensional inorganic semiconductor nanowires

CT Lim - Progress in materials science, 2013 - Elsevier
One-dimensional inorganic semiconductor nanowires form an attractive class of materials
for different sensing applications as a result of their distinctive size-and shape-dependent …

Free charge carriers in mesoporous silicon

VY Timoshenko, T Dittrich, V Lysenko, MG Lisachenko… - Physical review B, 2001 - APS
Free charge carriers in mesoporous Si (meso-PS) consisting of Si nanocrystals of small
dimensions of about 6–10 nm are investigated by the infrared-absorption technique …

Porous silicon layers used for gas sensor applications

A Foucaran, F Pascal-Delannoy, A Giani, A Sackda… - Thin Solid Films, 1997 - Elsevier
In this communication we report on the elaboration of porous silicon layers for gas sensor
applications. We describe our test system for gas sensors, and we investigate the electric …