In the frame of this work porous silicon templates with different morphologies, mainly related to the roughness of the pore-walls, have been fabricated and subsequently filled with diverse ferromagnetic metals to fabricate self-assembled three dimensional arrays of nanostructures (wires, particles) with distinct magnetic properties. The fabricated templates offer a quasi-regular self-assembled pore arrangement with oriented pores. Also the pore-filling is self-assembled by electrochemical deposition and there are multiple possibilities to tailor the magnetic behavior of these systems such as material, morphology, inter particle distance or interfaces. One critical parameter for this purpose is the roughness of the pore walls and the surface of the metal structures, respectively. Within the pores of these templates ferromagnetic metals have been deposited and the modification of the magnetic properties correlated to the morphology of the different templates has been figured out. The fabrication of low-dimensional structures is a key topic in today's research, not only because of the demand of further miniaturization and integrated devices but also due to the fact that nanostructured materials offer diverse physical properties compared to their bulk materials. Various methods are used for the production of such small structures, whereas lithography is a common method to achieve regular arranged structures with a defined geometry. However, selforganization methods of pores are also of interest due to their low-costs and time-saving. Template assisted self-assembly of nanostructures is an adequate tool in order to achieve 3-dimensional arrays of nanostructures. Common templates which are employed are e.g. anodic porous alumina 1 but also porous silicon. 2 Porous silicon, formed by anodization of a silicon wafer can be fabricated with many various morphologies ranging from pore-diameters of a few nanometers up to several micrometers. To achieve arrangements of nanostructures with specific properties within the template pore diameters in the mesoporous regime are of interest.Beside the trapping of molecules within the pores of such structures 3 their filling with various metals has been investigated intensely. 4,5,6 The filling with magnetic materials allows the tuning of the resulting magnetic properties of the composite system.In the following section the filling of the pores of porous silicon templates of different morphology will be discussed, specifically, with respect to the surface texture. The electrodeposition of magnetic materials will be elucidated and the adjustability of the resulting magnetic properties will be pointed out.
ExperimentalIn general porous silicon can be fabricated by wet or dry etching, whereas the most common wet methods are anodization, stain etching and metal assisted etching. In this work two methods of porous silicon formation are used, namely a "conventional" anodization and a magnetic field assisted etching. 7 Templates with pore-diameters between 30 nm and 90 nm are prepared. In th...