Porous silicon: a quantum sponge structure for silicon based optoelectronics

O Bisi, S Ossicini, L Pavesi - Surface science reports, 2000 - Elsevier
The striking photoluminescence properties of porous silicon have attracted considerable
research interest since their discovery in 1990. Luminescence is due to excitonic …

Porous silicon chemical sensors and biosensors: A review

FA Harraz - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2014 - Elsevier
The use of porous silicon (PSi) as a sensor for detection of various analytes is reviewed. The
optical or electrical properties of PSi are key sensing parameters that have been used in …

Porous silicon microcavities as optical chemical sensors

V Mulloni, L Pavesi - Applied Physics Letters, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
The optical properties of porous silicon microcavities are strongly dependent on the
environment. For highly luminescent samples, both the luminescence intensity and the peak …

Silicon porosification: state of the art

G Korotcenkov, BK Cho - Critical Reviews in Solid State and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Tailoring the photonic band gap of a porous silicon dielectric mirror

V Agarwal, JA Del Rıo - Applied physics letters, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
A systematic method to fabricate porous-silicon one-dimensional photonic crystals has been
engineered to have a photonic bandwidth up to 2000 nm. The observation of the tailorability …

Electrochemical stabilization of porous silicon multilayers for sensing various chemical compounds

MS Salem, MJ Sailor, FA Harraz, T Sakka… - Journal of applied …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Porous silicon rugate filters are fabricated and investigated for their ability to sense chemical
species. The durability of the filter is tested by allowing the structure to undergo many cycles …

Optical microcavities with subnanometer linewidths based on porous silicon

PJ Reece, G Lerondel, WH Zheng, M Gal - Applied physics letters, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
We have fabricated a number of high-quality porous silicon optical microcavities operating in
the near infrared that exhibit cavity resonances with subnanometer linewidths. This was …

Lanthanide luminescence enhancements in porous silicon resonant microcavities

SNA Jenie, S Pace, B Sciacca, RD Brooks… - … Applied Materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
In this paper, the covalent immobilization and luminescence enhancement of a europium
(Eu (III)) complex in a porous silicon (pSi) layer with a microcavity (pSiMC) structure are …

Recent advances on luminescent enhancement-based porous silicon biosensors

SNA Jenie, SE Plush, NH Voelcker - Pharmaceutical research, 2016 - Springer
Luminescence–based detection paradigms have key advantages over other optical
platforms such as absorbance, reflectance or interferometric based detection. However …

Development of L-lactate dehydrogenase biosensor based on porous silicon resonant microcavities as fluorescence enhancers

SNA Jenie, B Prieto-Simon, NH Voelcker - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2015 - Elsevier
The up-regulation of l-lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), an intracellular enzyme present in most
of all body tissues, is indicative of several pathological conditions and cellular death. Herein …