Overview
- The most authoritative volume on porous silicon in a generation
- Contains 150 sections of global contributions from 60 authors
- Edited by an industry luminary
- Comprehensive: coverage of all aspects
- Entries presented in a quantitative style
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About this book
The Handbook of Porous Silicon brings together the expertise of a large, international team of almost 100 academic researchers, engineers, and product developers from industry across electronics, medicine, nutrition and consumer care to summarize the field in its entirity with 150 chapters and 5000 references. The volume presents 5 parts which cover fabrication techniques, material properties, characterization techniques, processing and applications. Much attention was given in the the past to its luminescent properties, but increasingly it is the biodegradability, mechanical, thermal and sensing capabilities that are attracting attention. The volume is divided into focussed data reviews with, wherever possible, quantitative rather than qualitative descriptions of both properties and performance. The book is targeted at undergraduates, postgraduates, and experienced researchers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Canham graduated from University College London in 1979 with a BSc in Physics and completed his PhD at King's College London in 1983. His early work in this area took place at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern, Worcestershire. Canham and his colleagues showed that electrochemically etched silicon could be made porous. This porous material could emit visible light when a current was passed through it (electroluminescence). Later the group demonstrated the biocompatibility of porous silicon.
Canham now works as Chief Scientific Officer of psiMedica (part of pSiVida). According to the pSiVida web site, Canham is the most cited author on porous silicon.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Porous Silicon
Editors: Leigh Canham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04508-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Chemistry and Mat. Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04508-5Due: 26 February 2018
Number of Pages: 1000
Number of Illustrations: 500 b/w illustrations, 500 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optical and Electronic Materials, Electrochemistry, Solid State Physics, Biomedicine general, Energy Storage, Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films