6630: " ere's plenty of room at the top ") and carried out at the Semiconductor e cover shows images of UV light recorded with a Timepix chip (chapter 5). To do this an InGrid detector structure and a CsI photocathode have been post-processed onto the IC. e background that is used on the cover is an image of patterns in porous alumina, a material that has been investigated for the structures...

We demonstrate the feasibility of semiconductor deposition via the electrochemical reduction of gaseous precursors by the use of an anhydrous proton-conducting membrane, the solid acid CsHSO4, at 165 °C. This membrane electrode assembly was operated within the oxidation of hydrogen on a porous Pt anode and the deposition of Si or Ge under bias at the cathode from chloride-based gaseous precurso...

We studied the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic-semiconductor composites based on nickel and porous-GaN, motivated by effort to couple semiconductor functionality. Nickel-infiltrated nickel-coated (laminated thin-film) porous GaN structures were fabricated electrodeposition, their subsequently examined collectively, vibrating sample magnetometry nanoscale, force microscopy. successfully dem...

A photocatalytic reaction involves charge separation and transfer under photoirradiation, and the photogenerated charge carriers (holes and electrons) are responsible for the photocatalytic activity of the catalyst. The active centres in a single-site photocatalyst are the isolated and spatially separated sites that may interact with reactants after photo-irradiation. Generally, single-site pho...

SiC is a hard man-made material and has emerged as an excellent material for a wide range of applications which are exposed to extreme conditions such as high temperatures and harsh chemical environments. These applications range from SiC being used as an abrasive, to a refractory material, to a semiconductor material for high power and high frequency electronic devices. The properties of the m...

Porous silicon (PSi) non-symmetric multi-layers are modified by organic molecular beam deposition of an organic semiconductor, namely the N,N'-1H,1H-perfluorobutyldicyanoperylene-carboxydi-imide (PDIF-CN2). Joule evaporation of PDIF-CN2 into the PSi sponge-like matrix not only improves but also adds transducing skills, making this solid-state device a dual signal sensor for chemical monitoring....

In this paper, we report on the enhancement of spectral photoresponsivity of porous silicon metal-semiconductor metal (PS-MSM) photodetector embedded with colloidal quantum dots (QDs) inside the pore layer. The detection efficiency of QDs/PS hybrid-MSM photodetector was enhanced by five times larger than that of the undoped PS-MSM photodetector. The bandgap alignment between PS (approximately 1...