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Porous Silicon: Morphology and Formation Mechanisms

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Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry

Part of the book series: Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry ((MAOE,volume 39))

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Porous silicon (PS) is a material formed by anodic dissolution of single crystalline silicon in HF containing solutions. Since its discovery more than four decades ago, a large number of investigations have been undertaken, the results of which revealed that PS has extremely rich morphological features and the formation process of PS is a very complex function of numerous factors.1 Accordingly, many theories have been proposed on the various mechanistic aspects on formation and morphology of PS. Figure 1 is a summary of the progress of research on PS with respect to the discovery of major PS features and development of theories.

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Zhang, G.X. (2006). Porous Silicon: Morphology and Formation Mechanisms. In: Vayenas, C., White, R.E., Gamboa-Adelco, M.E. (eds) Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry. Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry, vol 39. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31701-4_2

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