Nanostructured semiconductors : from basic research to applications / edited by Petra Granitzer and Klemens Rumpf.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. A meta model for electrochemical pore growth in semiconductors / Malte Leisner, Helmut Föll, and Jürgen Carstensen -- 2. New approaches to the production of porous silicon by stain etching / Kurt W. Kolasinski -- 3. Silicon nanostructures by self-assembly and metal-assisted etching / Luca Boarino, Giampiero Amato, Emanuele Enrico, Natascia De Leo, Federica Celegato, Marco Coïsson, Franco Vinai, Paola Tiberto, Angelica Chiodoni, and Michele Laus -- 4. Synthesis and characterization of germanium nanocrystals / Manash R. Das, Sabine Szunerits, and Rabah Boukherroub -- 5. SiGe nanostructures : from fundamental to applications / Isabelle Berbezier, Antoine Ronda, Jean-Noël Aqua, Luc Favre, and Thomas Frisch -- 6. Mesoporous silica from the anodization of silicon : preparation and morphologies / Jean-Noël Chazalviel and François Ozanam -- 7. Filling of porous silicon with metals by electrochemical reactions / Kazuhiro Fukami -- 8. Magnetic nanostructures embedded in a porous silicon matrix / Klemens Rumpf and Petra Granitzer -- 9. Manifestations of the quantum confinement effect in the phototransport properties of ensembles of semiconductor quantum dots / Isaac Balberg -- 10. Silicon nanocrystals embedded in SiO2 matrices : ab initio results / Roberto Guerra and Stefano Ossicini -- 11. Design of composite and multi-component one-dimensional photonic crystal structures based on silicon / Tatiana S. Perova, Vladimir A. Tolmachev, and Kevin Berwick -- 12. Silicon-based optical resonators / Alessandro Pitanti, Paolo Bettotti, Mher Ghulinyan, and Lorenzo Pavesi -- 13. Optical properties of nanoscale Si/SiO2 superlattices / David J. Lockwood and Leonid Tsybeskov -- 14. Nanosilicon for advanced post-scaling applications / Nobuyoshi Koshida and Bernard Gelloz -- 15. Semiconductor nanowires and associated polymeric composites : therapeutic implications for smart tissue engineering scaffolds / Jeffery L. Coffer, Ke Jiang, and Dattatri Nagesha.