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Preparation of Silicon Nanowires and Porous Silicon Composite Structure by Electrocatalytic Metal Assisted Chemical Etching

Lichi CHEN, Yaogong WANG, Wenjiang WANG, Xiaoqin MA, Jingyuan YANG, Xiaoning ZHANG

Journal of Inorganic Materials· Volume 36· Issue 6

Abstract

The quantum confinement effect brings good field emission characteristics to silicon nanowires, which is expected to improve the performance of field emission device through combination with the quasiballistic electrons drift model in porous silicon structure, but the efficiency of traditional metal assisted chemical etching is low.
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