Silicon Nanomaterials Sourcebook : Low-Dimensional Structures, Quantum Dots, and Nanowires, Volume One

✍ Scribed by Klaus D. Sattler

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 643
• Series: Series in Materials Science and Engineering
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive tutorial guide to silicon nanomaterials spans from fundamental properties, growth mechanisms, and processing of nanosilicon to electronic device, energy conversion and storage, biomedical, and environmental applications. It also presents core knowledge with basic mathematical equations, tables, and graphs in order to provide the reader with the tools necessary to understand the latest technology developments.

From low-dimensional structures, quantum dots, and nanowires to hybrid materials, arrays, networks, and biomedical applications, this Sourcebook is a complete resource for anyone working with this materials:

• Covers fundamental concepts, properties, methods, and practical applications.
• Focuses on one important type of silicon nanomaterial in every chapter.
• Discusses formation, properties, and applications for each material.
• Written in a tutorial style with basic equations and fundamentals included in an extended introduction.
• Highlights materials that show exceptional properties as well as strong prospects for future applications.

Klaus D. Sattler is professor physics at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, having earned his PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He was honored with the Walter Schottky Prize from the German Physical Society, and is the editor of the sister work also published by Taylor & Francis, Carbon Nanomaterials Sourcebook, as well as the acclaimed multi-volume Handbook of Nanophysics.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Series Preface
Preface
Editor
Contributors
Part 1: Low-dimensional structures
Chapter 1: One-dimensional porous silicon photonic crystals
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 General Aspect of Photonic Crystals
1.1.2 Fabrication Methods and Limitations
1.1.3 One-dimensional Photonic Crystal
1.2 General Aspects About Porous Silicon
1.2.1 Optical and Structural Characterization of Porous Silicon monolayers
1.2.2 Porosity and Thickness Measurements
1.2.3 Effective Refractive Index Measurements
1.2.4 Roughness At the Porous Silicon Interfaces 1.3 Porous Silicon Multilayer Stack1.3.1 Nonperiodic Structures
1.3.2 Periodic Structures: One-dimensional Porous Silicon Photonic Crystal or Bragg Mirrors
1.3.3 Porous Silicon Microcavities: Fabry-perot Devices
1.4 Micro- and Mesoporous Structures for Photonic Crystals: P-type Versus P+-type Substrate
1.4.1 Electrolyte Effect on the Optical Response of the One-dimensional Photonic Crystal Based on Porous Silicon
1.4.2 Optical Reflectance Dependence on the Substrate Backside Contact
1.4.3 Experimental Versus Model: Optical Parameters Extraction From Experimental Spectra 1.5 Applications1.6 Summary
References
Chapter 2: Two-dimensional silicon
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Experimental Fabrication and Characterization of Silicene
2.2.1 Supported Silicene
2.2.2 Few-layer Silicene
2.2.3 Silicene Nanoribbons
2.2.4 Characterization Of Electronic Properties
2.2.4.1 Monolayer Silicene
2.2.4.2 Few-layer Silicene
2.3 Theoretical Investigations on the Physical Properties of Silicene
2.3.1 Structure
2.3.2 Electronic and Optical Properties
2.3.2.1 Massless Dirac Fermion
2.3.2.2 Quantum Spin Hall Effect
2.3.2.3 Fermi Velocity
2.3.2.4 Tunable Band Gap 2.3.2.5 Strain Effect on the Electronic Properties2.3.2.6 Optical Properties
2.3.3 Thermal and Mechanical Properties
2.3.3.1 Thermal Conductivity of Freestanding Silicene and Silicene Nanoribbon
2.3.3.2 Substrate Effect on Thermal Conductivity
2.3.3.3 Strain Effect on Thermal Conductivity
2.3.3.4 Mechanical Properties
2.4 Applications
2.4.1 Field-effect Transistors
2.4.2 Energy Storage
2.4.3 Thermoelectric
2.5 Concluding Remarks and Outlook
References
Chapter 3: Two-dimensional silicon nanosheets
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Monolayer Silicene Compounds 3.2.1 Growth of Calcium-intercalated Silicene, CaSi23.2.2 Electronic Properties of Monolayer Silicene In CaSi2
3.3 Bilayer Silicene Compounds
3.3.1 Synthetic Methods
3.3.2 Structural Determination of Bilayer Silicene
3.3.3 Band Structure
3.4 Exfoliation of Layered Silicon Compounds
3.4.1 Exfoliation of CaSi2
3.4.2 Layered Silicon Compounds
3.5 Functionalized Silicon Nanosheets
3.5.1 Synthesis and Characterizations of Ph-siNS
3.5.2 Optical Properties of Amino-modified SiNS
3.5.3 Self-stacking Properties of Amino-modified SiNS
3.5.4 Theoretical Properties

✦ Subjects

SCIENCE / Physics.;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Material Science.;Condensed Matter Physics.;Nanoscience & Nanotechnology.;Electromagnetics & Microwaves.