ABSTRACT
Luminescent porous silicon offers structures in the nanometer scale and is called microporous after the international union of pure and applied chemistry (IUPAC) notation. The deposition of ferromagnetic materials into the pores of porous silicon has been investigated by various authors to figure out, on the one hand, the metal deposition mechanism and, on the other hand, the arising magnetic properties of the nanocomposite system. The deposition of magnetic metals has been carried out in mesoporous as well as macroporous silicon. A further approach to create a semiconducting/magnetic nanocomposite is the infiltration of synthesized iron oxide nanoparticles into porous silicon. To create nanocomposites with a specific hysteresis behavior, electrodeposition has been used to fill the pores selectively with Ni and Co nanostructures. The most common techniques to deposit a metal within the pores of porous silicon are electrodeposition, electroless deposition, atomic layer deposition (ALD), and evaporation.
