Design criteria for XeF2 enabled deterministic transformation of bulk silicon (100) into flexible silicon layer

Bulk Micromachining of Silicon

Bulk silicon etching techniques, used to selectively remove silicon from substrates, have been broadly applied in the fabrication of micromachined sensors, actuators, and structures. Despite the more recent emergence of higher resolution, surfacemicromachining approaches, the majority of currently shipping silicon sensors are made using bulk etching. Particularly in light of newly introduced dr...

Silicon Solar Cells with Nanoporous Silicon Layer

Environment-dependent interatomic potential for bulk silicon

We use recent theoretical advances to develop a functional form for interatomic forces in bulk silicon. The theoretical results underlying the model include an analysis of elastic properties for the diamond and graphitic structures and inversions of ab initio cohesive energy curves. The interaction model includes two-body and three-body terms which depend on the local atomic environment through...

Effect of Silicon Nanowire on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Characteristics

Nanowires (NWs) are recently used in several sensor or actuator devices to improve their ordered characteristics. Silicon nanowire (Si NW) is one of the most attractive one-dimensional nanostructures semiconductors because of its unique electrical and optical properties. In this paper, silicon nanowire (Si NW), is synthesized and characterized for application in photovoltaic device. Si NWs are ...

Flexible Architecture for Microinstrumentation Systems in Silicon

|A exible architecture for a microinstrumentation system in silicon was developped, and intended for use in a wide range of applications. The MCM device should be considered a genuine (micro)instrument, which supplies highlevel data over an external instrumentation bus. Internally, the system should support all vital functions, such as power management, self-calibration and in-system data trans...