Purification of silicon powder by the formation of thin porous layer followed by photo-thermal annealing

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Khalifa, Marouan ^a   Hajji, Messaoud ^a,b   Ezzaouia, Hatem ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF ENERGY   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Gettering; ICP AES; Porous silicon; Silicon powder; Thermal annealing; Vapor etching

Indexed keywords

GETTERING; ICP-AES; SILICON POWDERS; THERMAL-ANNEALING; VAPOR-ETCHING;

ANNEALING; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ETCHING; VAPORS;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 84866140601     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-444     Document Type: Article

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