Electrical properties and photoresponses of silicon nanowires with selective anchored gold nanoparticles via scanning probe bond breaking nanolithography

CH Wu, N Yeh - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we describe the electrical characteristics of silicon nanowire (SiNW) devices
after different surface chemical modifications and report the enhanced photoconductivity …

New silicon architectures by gold-assisted chemical etching

B Mikhael, B Elise, M Xavier, S Sebastian… - … applied materials & …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) were produced by nanosphere lithography and metal assisted
chemical etching. The combination of these methods allows the morphology and …

Photoresponsive properties of ultrathin silicon nanowires

DP Tran, TJ Macdonald, B Wolfrum… - Applied physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Functional silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are promising building blocks in the design of highly
sensitive photodetectors and bio-chemical sensors. We systematically investigate the …

Nonlithographic patterning and metal-assisted chemical etching for manufacturing of tunable light-emitting silicon nanowire arrays

W Chern, K Hsu, IS Chun, BP Azeredo, N Ahmed… - Nano …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Semiconductor nanowires have potential applications in photovoltaics, batteries, and
thermoelectrics. We report a top-down fabrication method that involves the combination of …

Tailoring optical properties of silicon nanowires by Au nanostructure decorations: enhanced Raman scattering and photodetection

R Chen, D Li, H Hu, Y Zhao, Y Wang… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Metallic nanoparticles (NPs) decorated semiconductor nanowires (NWs) heterostructures
show significant promise in enhanced optical and opto-electrical properties due to the …

Effective removal of surface recombination centers in silicon nanowires fabricated by metal-assisted chemical etching

V Donchev, S Georgiev, I Leontis… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2018 - ACS Publications
High-density silicon nanowires (SiNWs) were fabricated on p-Si substrates by metal-
assisted chemical etching (MACE). A chemical cleaning with HF/piranha/HF was used to …

Selective deposition of gold nanoparticles on SiO2/Si nanowires for molecule detection

JT Sheu, CC Chen, PC Huang, YK Lee… - Japanese journal of …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
The selective deposition of gold nanoparticles on the surface of N-(2-Aminoethyl)-3-
aminopropyl-trimethoxysilane (AEAPTMS)-pretreated silicon nanowire (SiNW) s for …

Optical properties of silicon nanowire arrays formed by metal-assisted chemical etching: evidences for light localization effect

LA Osminkina, KA Gonchar, VS Marshov… - Nanoscale research …, 2012 - Springer
We study the structure and optical properties of arrays of silicon nanowires (SiNWs) with a
mean diameter of approximately 100 nm and length of about 1–25 μm formed on crystalline …

Large-scale assembly of silicon nanowire network-based devices using conventional microfabrication facilities

K Heo, E Cho, JE Yang, MH Kim, M Lee, BY Lee… - Nano Letters, 2008 - ACS Publications
We present a method for assembling silicon nanowires (Si-NWs) in virtually general shape
patterns using only conventional microfabrication facilities. In this method, silicon nanowires …

Structural and optical characteristics of silicon nanowires fabricated by wet chemical etching

M Zhu, X Chen, Z Wang, Y Chen, D Ma, H Peng… - Chemical Physics …, 2011 - Elsevier
Array-ordered silicon nanowires (SiNWs) were fabricated directly on p-Si substrate by wet
chemical etching. The as-prepared SiNWs apparently were composed of a single-crystalline …