Integrated Silicon-Metal Systems at the Nanoscale: Applications in Photonics, Quantum Computing, Networking, and Internet

Integrated Silicon-Metal Systems at the Nanoscale: Applications in Photonics, Quantum Computing, Networking, and Internet is a comprehensive guide to the interaction, materials, and functional integration at the nanoscale, of the silicon-metal binary system and a variety of emerging and next-generation advanced device applications, from energy and electronics, to sensing, to quantum computing and quantum internet networks. The book guides the readers through advanced techniques and etching processes, combining underlying principles, materials science, design, and operation of metal-Si nanodevices. Each chapter focuses on a specific use of integrated metal-silicon nanostructures, including storage and resistive next-generation nano memory and transistors, photo and molecular sensing, harvest and storage device electrodes, phosphor light converters, and hydrogen fuel cells, as well as future application areas, such as spin transistors, quantum computing, hybrid quantum devices, and quantum engineering, networking, and internet. This is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in nanomaterials and nanotechnology, electronics engineering, quantum computing, physics, and materials engineering, as well as for materials engineers, industrial scientists, and R&D professionals with an interest in silicon-metal nanodevices for state-of-the-art applications. Provides detailed coverage of materials, design, and operation of metal-Si nanodevices Offers a step-by-step approach, supported by principles, methods, illustrations, and equations Explores a range of cutting-edge emerging applications across electronics, sensing, and quantum computing INDICE: 1. Introduction to the metal-silicon binary system 2. Experimental and theoretical characterization of nanostructures 3. Synthesis of nano wires and nano particles using metal-assisted chemical etching 4. Plasma-metal assisted etching of silicon 5. CMOS compatibility of metal assisted etching 6. Nanoparticle-assisted growth of nano wires 7. Synthesis of metal-silicon core-shells via interaction of nanosilicon and metal salts 8. Electrical and material characteristics of metal-silicon silicides 9. Plasmons-polarizmon in metal-silicon system 10. Diluted magnetic silicon 11. Photonic and analytical sensing 12. Nano-structured electrodes for energy applications 13. Generation of hydrogen fuel by silicon / metal grain systems 14. Silicide memory cells and transistors 15. Quantum computing using superconducting artificial atoms at metal-silicon interface 16. The Quantum Internet and hybrid quantum technology 17. Properties and application potential of silicon

• ISBN: 978-0-443-18673-8
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 528
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés