Nano Express
Nanostructures formed by displacement of porous silicon with copper: from nanoparticles to porous membranes
1 Department of Micro- and Nanoelectronics, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, 6 Brovka St., Minsk, 220013, Belarus
2 B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 68 Nezalezhnasti Ave, Minsk, 0, Belarus
3 Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, University “Sapienza”, 18 Eudossiana St., Rome, 00184, Italy
Nanoscale Research Letters 2012, 7:477 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-7-477
Published: 23 August 2012Abstract
The application of porous silicon as a template for the fabrication of nanosized copper objects is reported. Three different types of nanostructures were formed by displacement deposition of copper on porous silicon from hydrofluoric acid-based solutions of copper sulphate: (1) copper nanoparticles, (2) quasi-continuous copper films, and (3) free porous copper membranes. Managing the parameters of porous silicon (pore sizes, porosity), deposition time, and wettability of the copper sulphate solution has allowed to achieve such variety of the copper structures. Elemental and structural analyses of the obtained structures are presented. Young modulus measurements of the porous copper membrane have been carried out and its modest activity in surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy is declared.
