Particulate contamination formed by homogeneous clustering reactions of silicon hydrides within silicon chemical vapor deposition processes is an important source of yield loss during semiconductor processing. On the other hand, intentional synthesis of silicon nanoparticles may be of great interest because of the unique optical and electronic properties of nanostructured silicon. Kinetic model...

Due to the large amount of chemical data available, it is essential to organize them and given the numerous problems derived from applying spreadsheets, it motivated us to construct an improved tool geared to contain large amounts of data. This paper presents ThermInfo, a public web tool that integrates a database based upon a relational data specification for describing structural and thermoch...

recent developments in hydrogen production by thermochemical water decomposition are reported,with an emphasis on hydrogen production from non-fossil energy sources such as nuclear and solar. numerousdevelopments have been made on sulphur-iodine, copper-chlorine and other thermochemicalcycles. efforts are described to lower the temperatures required in thermochemical cycles, so as to broadenthe...