Pinpoint and bulk electrochemical reduction of insulating silicon dioxide to silicon

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 397-401

  Nohira, Toshiyuki ^a   Yasuda, Kouji ^a   Ito, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; INSULATING MATERIALS; LIQUID METALS; OXYGEN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BULK ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTION; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; FARADAY CONSTANT; HETEROGENOUS HOMOGENOUS REACTIONS;

SILICA;

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEAT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAT; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 0043210943     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat900     Document Type: Article

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