Overview
- The most authoritative volume on porous silicon in a generation
- Contains 150 chapters of contributions from almost 100 authors from around the world
- Edited by an industry luminary
- Comprehensive: coverage of all aspects
- Annotated with numerous illustrations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (94 entries)
-
Front Matter
-
Fabrication
-
Front Matter
-
Keywords
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 entirety 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 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
Leigh Canham is a British scientist who has pioneered the optoelectronic and biomedical applications of porous silicon.
Leigh 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/10.1007/978-3-319-05744-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05744-6Published: 27 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 1017
Number of Illustrations: 122 b/w illustrations, 125 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optical and Electronic Materials, Electrochemistry, Solid State Physics, Biomedicine general, Energy Storage, Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films