The thermal conductivity of electrochemically etched porous silicon (PS) layers was determined over a wide temperature range (T = 35 - 320 K) using the dynamic technique. Both the doping level of the silicon wafers (p and ) and the porosity P of the porous layers (P = 64 - 89%) were varied. The measured thermal conductivities were three to five orders of magnitude smaller than the values for bulk silicon. Furthermore, they increase with increasing the wafer doping level and with decreasing the porosity P of the layers. For all investigated PS layers the thermal conductivity increases with temperature. The results are discussed in terms of a simple model for heat conduction in PS based on the phonon diffusion model.
For the first time porous silicon has been investigated for the purpose of application as a substrate material for potentiometric biosensors operating in aqueous solutions. Porous silicon was prepared from differently doped silicon substrates by a standard anodic etching process. After oxidation, penicillinase, an enzyme sensitive to penicillin, was bound to the porous structure by physical adsorption. To characterize the electrochemical properties of the so build up penicillin biosensor, capacitance-voltage (C -V ) measurements were performed on these field-effect structures.
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