Metal-assisted chemical etching of silicon and the behavior of nanoscale silicon materials as Li-ion battery anodes

W McSweeney, H Geaney, C O'Dwyer - Nano Research, 2015 - Springer
This review outlines the developments and recent progress in metal-assisted chemical
etching of silicon, summarizing a variety of fundamental and innovative processes and …

Silicon nanowires as an efficient material for hydrogen evolution through catalysis: a review

U Ray, S Sarkar, D Banerjee - Catalysis Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Now-a-days use of environment-friendly alternative energy has become a common practice,
as the conventional fossil fuel energy is being depleted exponentially. Also, the by-products …

Fabrication and studies on Si/InP core-shell nanowire based solar cell using etched Si nanowire arrays

B Pal, KJ Sarkar, P Banerji - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract We report Si/InP core-shell nanowire radial heterojunction array based solar cell.
Silicon nanowire (SiNW) arrays were fabricated by room temperature metal assisted …

The enhanced light absorptance and device application of nanostructured black silicon fabricated by metal-assisted chemical etching

H Zhong, A Guo, G Guo, W Li, Y Jiang - Nanoscale research letters, 2016 - Springer
We use metal-assisted chemical etching (MCE) method to fabricate nanostructured black
silicon on the surface of C-Si. The Si-PIN photoelectronic detector based on this type of …

Improvement of carrier diffusion length in silicon nanowire arrays using atomic layer deposition

S Kato, Y Kurokawa, S Miyajima, Y Watanabe… - Nanoscale research …, 2013 - Springer
To achieve a high-efficiency silicon nanowire (SiNW) solar cell, surface passivation
technique is very important because a SiNW array has a large surface area. We successfully …

Growth Mechanism and Opto-Structural Characterization of Vertically Oriented Si Nanowires: Implications for Heterojunction Solar Cells

D Das, K Sarkar - ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2024 - ACS Publications
Vertically oriented arrays of Si nanowires (SiNWs) with high aspect ratios are grown
uniformly over large areas by a simple yet inexpensive one-step room-temperature Ag …

Near-infrared detection in Si/InP core-shell radial heterojunction nanowire arrays

B Pal, KJ Sarkar, S Das, P Banerji - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021 - Elsevier
We have explored the photodetection properties of a core-shell nanowire (NW)
heterojunction based device consisting of p-Si/n-InP with an aim to provide an alternative to …

Etching rate of silicon nanowires with highly doped silicon during metal-assisted chemical etching

H Li, S Kato, T Soga - Materials Research Express, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The fabrication of silicon nanowires (SiNWs) by metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE)
has been widely studied in a variety of fields. SiNWs by high-doped silicon are potential …

Bandgap tuning of silicon nanowire arrays for application to all-silicon tandem solar cells

Y Kurokawa, M Yano, S Miyajima… - Japanese Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
To reduce the diameter of silicon nanowire (SiNW) arrays for bandgap tuning, a diameter
reduction (DR) process incorporating H 3 PO 4 oxidation and HF etching was conducted for …

Fabrication of a silicon nanowire solar cell on a silicon-on-insulator substrate

S Kato, Y Kurokawa, K Gotoh, T Soga - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
This study proposes metal-assisted chemical etching (MAE) as a facile method to fabricate
silicon nanowire (SiNW) array structures, with high optical confinement for thin crystalline …