ABSTRACT
This deals with aspects strongly related to several applications of porous silicon (PSi) conceived in the 30 years spanning from approximately 1980 to 2010. Few materials found such a wide range of applications like PSi, from epitaxial growth (Sato et al. 1995) to optics (Amato et al. 2000a), sensors (Korotcenkov 2010), explosives (Kovalev et al. 2001), and biological and medical applications (Low et al. 2009). Nowadays, in the fields of solid-state physics and nano technology, some topics are still open, for example, in state-of-the-art research on semiconductor nanowires. Molecular doping as well as thermal properties of those systems show interesting resemblances with the same phenomena deeply investigated in PSi.
