1. Preface

   • Vitali Parkhutik
   • Leigh Canham

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 9

2. Electrochemical Aspects of Porous Silicon Formation

   • F. Ronkel
   • J.W. Schultze

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 16

3. Monitoring Anodic Silicon Dissolution in Acidic Fluoride Electrolyte by the Mirage Effect

   • Danilo Dini
   • Sandro Cattarin
   • Franco Decker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 22

4. Investigation of Morphology of Porous Silicon Formed on N+ Type Silicon

   • G. Lamedica
   • M. Balucani
   • A. Ferrari

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 26

5. X-Ray Reflectivity Study of Formation of Multilayer Porous Anodic Oxides of Silicon

   • Vitali Parkhutik
   • Y. Chu
   • P.A. Montano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 31

6. Potential, Temperature and Doping Dependence for Macropore Formation on n-Si with Backside-Illumination

   • M. Hejjo Al Rifai
   • M. Christophersen
   • H. Föll

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 36

7. Deposition of Erbium Containing Film in Porous Silicon from Ethanol Solution of Erbium Salt

   • V. Petrovich
   • S. Volchek
   • P. Fauchet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 40

8. Photochemical Etching of Silicon

   • M.L. Ngan
   • K.C. Lee
   • K.W. Cheah

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 45

9. In-Situ Surface-Roughness Measurements during the Preparation of Chemically Etched Porous Silicon

   • P.J. Harris
   • S.C. Bayliss
   • R. Cubitt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 49

10. Macropore Formation on p-Type Silicon

    • E.A. Ponomarev
    • C. Lévy-Clément

    OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 56

11. Pore Propagation Directions in P+ Porous Silicon

    • É. Vázsonyi
    • G. Battistig
    • J. Poortmans

    OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 61

12. Oxidation of Porous Silicon in Dry and Wet Environments under Mild Temperature Conditions

    • Y.H. Ogata
    • T. Tsuboi
    • S. Naito

    OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 66

13. Effects of Low-Thermal-Budget Treatments on the Porous Si Material Properties

    • L. Stalmans
    • J. Poortmans
    • A. Slaoui

    OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 71

14. Improvement of Porous Si Luminescence Intensity Durability by Nitrogen Ion Irradiation Using an ECR Ion Source

    • Ayaka Kumagai
    • Yuji Kanegawa
    • Nobuyoshi Koshida

    OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 76

15. Localized Photo-Assisted Electro-Deposition of Zinc Selenide into p-Type Porous Silicon

    • L. Montès
    • F. Muller
    • R. Hérino

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 80

16. Correlation of Photoluminescence and Bandgap Energies with Nanocrystal Sizes in Porous Silicon

    • J. Von Behren
    • M. Wolkin-Vakrat
    • P.M. Fauchet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 84

17. Auger Processes in the Ensemble of Si Nanocrystals

    • D. Kovalev
    • H. Heckler
    • F. Koch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 91

18. Electronic Structure and PL Spectrum of the Diffusion-Limited Model for Porous Silicon

    • S. Sawada
    • N. Ookubo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 96

19. AC Impedance Study of Porous Silicon Aging in HF Solution

    • Vitali P. Parkhutik

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 101

20. Conduction and Luminescent Properties of Wet Porous Silicon

    • B. Gelloz
    • A. Bsiesy
    • N. Koshida

    OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 106

21. AC Conductivity of Porous Silicon from Monte Carlo Simulations

    • P.J. Ventura
    • L.C. Costa
    • L. Pavesi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 110

22. A Study of Moisture Effects on Ti/Porous Silicon/Silicon Schottky Barrier

    • V. Strikha
    • V. Skryshevsky
    • J.R. Martin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 114

23. Probing Carrier Transport in Porous Silicon with Synchrotron Radiation

    • J. Jacobs
    • B. Hamilton
    • D. Teehan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 118

24. Novel Structures for Porous Silicon Light-Emitting Diodes

    • Kohsuke Nishimura
    • Yasuyuki Nagao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 123

25. Electro-, Photo- and Scanning Tunneling—Luminescence Studies of Efficient Light-Emitting Porous Silicon

    • V.A. Kuznetsov
    • I. Andrienko
    • D. Haneman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 130

26. Electroluminescence and Magnetic Field Quenching of Photoluminescence of Spark-Processed Si

    • R.E. Hummel
    • M.E. Stora
    • F. Fajardo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 134

27. Wide Gap Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon for Visible Light Emission

    • K. Luterová
    • A. Poruba
    • I. Pelant

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 138

28. Infrared Reflection Spectroscopy and Effective Medium Modeling of As-Anodized and Oxidized Porous Silicon Carbide

    • Jonathan E. Spanier
    • Irving P. Herman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 142

29. Photoluminescence Lifetime and Structure of Molecular Beam Epitaxy Porous Si1 − xGex Grown on Si

    • B. Ünal
    • M. Parkinson
    • D. Schröder

    OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 146

30. Recombination of Photogenerated Charge Carriers in Nanoporous Gallium Phosphide

    • W.H. Lubberhuizen
    • D. Vanmaekelbergh
    • E. Van Faassen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 152

31. Concept of Templated Lattices of Semiconductor Nanostructures

    • Sergei G. Romanov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 157

32. Near-Field Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy in Porous Silicon

    • Pascal Williams
    • Claude Lévy-Clément
    • Christian Colliex

    OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 163

33. A Systematic Study of Synchrotron Light Induced Luminescence from Porous Silicon: Implications to Morphology and Chemical Effect Dependent Electronic Behaviour

    • I. Coulthard
    • D.-T. Jiang
    • T.K. Sham

    OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 168

34. New EXAFS Measurements by XEOL and TEY on Porous Silicon

    • Nicola Daldosso
    • Francesco Rocca
    • Rolly Grisenti

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 172

35. The Energy-Band Structure of Porous Silicon Studied with Photoluminescence Excitation and Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

    • R.C. Egeberg
    • E. Veje
    • A. Santos Alves

    OriginalPaper Pages: 173 - 176

36. Study of Nano-Porous Silicon with Low Thermal Conductivity as Thermal Insulating Material

    • V. Lysenko
    • Ph. Roussel
    • C. Martelet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 182

37. Thermal Characterisation of Porous Silicon Membranes

    • G. Amato
    • R. Angelucci
    • R. Spagnolo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 186

38. An Investigation into Silane Evolution from Porous Silicon by Temperature Programmed Desorption Method

    • Pathma V. Gunasingam
    • George Goldspink

    OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 190

39. Nature of the Silicon-Animal Cell Interface

    • S.C. Bayliss
    • L.D. Buckberry
    • M. Tobin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 195

40. Permeated Porous Silicon Suspended Membrane as Sub-ppm Benzene Sensor for Air Quality Monitoring

    • R. Angelucci
    • A. Poggi
    • M. Marisaldi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 200

41. Structuring of Macroporous Silicon for Applications as Photonic Crystals

    • F. Müller
    • A. Birner
    • H. Föll

    OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 204

42. Electrical Control of the Reflectance of Porous Silicon Layers

    • M. Thönissen
    • M. Marso
    • W. Theiß

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 208

43. Light Emission from Highly Reflective Porous Silicon Multilayer Structures

    • E.K. Squire
    • P.A. Snow
    • D.J. Wallis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 213

44. Oxidized Porous Silicon: From Dielectric Isolation to Integrated Optical Waveguides

    • V. Yakovtseva
    • L. Dolgyi
    • A. Ferrari

    OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 222

45. Formation of Porous Silicon Filter Structures with Different Properties on Small Areas

    • R. Arens-Fischer
    • M. Krüger
    • H. Lüth

    OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 225

46. Porous Silicon Micromachining to Position Optical Fibres in Silicon Integrated Optical Circuits

    • P. Joubert
    • M. Guendouz
    • J. Charrier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 231

47. Porous Semiconductor Micropatterns Formed on Focussed Ion Beam Implants

    • P. Schmuki
    • L.E. Erickson
    • D.J. Lockwood

    OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 237

48. Processing of Infrared Spectroscopy Data on Thin Porous Films Using Software “Prospect”

    • V. Parkhutik
    • M. San-Jerónimo Martínez
    • E. Gómez Senent

    OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 242

49. Optical Waveguides Fabricated from Oxidised Porous Silicon

    • J. Charrier
    • E. Le Gorju
    • M. Guendouz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 246

50. Photon Localisation in Ordered Packages of Granular Semiconductors

    • S.G. Romanov
    • A.V. Fokin
    • R.M. De La Rue

    OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 251