Zeta Potential of Silicon Oxide and Hydrogen-Terminated Silicon Surfaces Adsorbed by Alkylammonium Halide.

Chlorination of hydrogen-terminated silicon „111... surfaces

Infrared absorption spectroscopy was used to investigate the chlorination of hydrogen-terminated Si 111 surfaces by three different methods: a exposure to a saturated solution of phosphorus pentachloride PCl5 in chlorobenzene; b exposure to chlorine gas, Cl2 g , and c exposure to Cl2 g under UV illumination. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and first principles model clusters calculations were ...

Rapid Surface Functionalization of Hydrogen-Terminated Silicon by Alkyl Silanols

Surface functionalization of inorganic semiconductor substrates, particularly silicon, has focused attention toward many technologically important applications, involving photovoltaic energy, biosensing and catalysis. For such modification processes, oxide-free (H-terminated) silicon surfaces are highly required, and different chemical approaches have been described in the past decades. However...

Nanopatterning of alkynes on hydrogen-terminated silicon surfaces by scanning probe-induced cathodic electrografting.

The electrochemical cathodic electrografting reaction, previously demonstrated on bulk silicon surfaces, can be patterned on the nanoscale utilizing conducting probe atomic force microscopy (CP-AFM). Alkyne electrografting is a particularly useful chemical technique since it leads to direct covalent attachment of conjugated alkynes to silicon. In addition, application of a forward bias during t...

Silicon epitaxy on hydrogen-terminated Si(001) surfaces using thermal and energetic beams

Silicon epitaxy on hydrogen-terminated Si(001) surfaces has been studied using molecular dynamics simulations. Epitaxy on the dihydride-terminated Si(001 )-( 1 × 1) surface is inhibited for Si atoms at thermal energies due to strain hindrances created by hydrogen. At greater incident Si atom energies (2-10 eV), epitaxy proceeds primarily through "subplantation", i.e. subsurface implantation of ...

Transient Photoconductivity Decay Measurements of Polymer- Terminated Silicon Surfaces