Title
Optical properties of porous silicon surface
Abstract
The optical characteristics (transmission and reflection, absorption and scattering coefficients) of the Si nanowires obtained by electrochemical treatment of Si wafers were studied experimentally in spectral range 350–750nm, using the different angles of incidence and measuring the angular distribution of the reflected (scattered) light. Theoretical treatment made on the basis of the Mie theory and some original modelling explains the characteristics determined and gives a simple method of estimation of refractive index of porous semiconductor layer created above the bulk specimen. The main conclusion is that the integrated light reflection from the P-Si surface is essentially smaller than the reflection from the bulk crystalline Si. Both theory and experiment show that the porous surface layer, although non-homogeneous and thus possessing the light scattering, acts as antireflection coating for Si, and could be used, in particular, in solar cells made from Si as well as from the other semiconducting materials.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.mejo.2005.02.072
Microelectronics Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
Porous silicon,Optical properties,Reflection,Scattering
Attenuation coefficient,Porous silicon,Mie scattering,Surface layer,Optics,Scattering,Engineering,Reflection (physics),Light scattering,Refractive index
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
3
0026-2692
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
E. Chambon100.34
E. Florentin200.34
T.V. Torchynska312.88
J. González-Hernández400.34
Y. Vorobiev510.71