Metal-assisted etching of p-silicon—Pore formation and characterization

A review on solar cells from Si-single crystals to porous materials and quantum dots

“…It is clear from Fig. 11 b that the etching of p-Si in 22 M HF containing 0.05 M potassium bromate for one hour represent the best conditions for obtaining micro- and nano-porous film on p-Si [35,44] .…”

“…Quantum dots, nano-porous materials like Si and TiO 2 and nano-composites play an important role in solar energy conversion [34–41] . Etching of semiconductors plays the main role in the production of micro- and nano-porous clusters [42–44] .…”

Uniform trench arrays with controllable tilted profiles using metal-assisted chemical etching

“…Unfortunately, dry etching techniques [14,15], the dominant etching process for Herein, in this study, the uniform micro-sized trench arrays with controllable tilting profiles were reported using a metal-assisted chemical etching (MaCE) process [16][17][18][19]. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on realizing the Si micro-trenches with tunable tilting angles of trench sidewalls.…”

Nanostructured silicon thin film solar cell

“…mins is observed to be smaller. The "attacked" silicon is referred as porous silicon as shown in literature [103][104][105][106], with potential application in optical sensors. The etching concentration in our experiment has been standardized to be HF:H 2 O 2 = 3:1.…”

“…where the purpose of the experiment was not focused on ordered arrays of silicon nanostructures [103][104][105][106].…”