Porous silicon: electrochemical microstructuring, photoluminescence, and covalent modificaiton
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Interest in porous silicon (PS) has increased dramatically over the past two decades due to aspects such as photoluminescence due to quantum confinement, large surface area, and micro/nanoscale architecture. In this work, <111> p-type silicon wafers have been electrochemically etched with ethanolic solutions of hydrofluoric acid. Discrete surface domains showing luminescence were observed. The domains were typically many tens of micrometers in size and had a height of about 6-8 μm. Interestingly, central round wells of 10-30 μm diameter were observed to form within domains. Investigation of luminescence in depth profile of the wells was done using confocal fluorescence microscopy, and the results indicated that the domains were fully porous and luminescent throughout the entire depth. Spectrally, the peak fluorescence emission was in the range of 550-750 nm and the spectra had an average FWHM equal to about 150 nm. Covalent attachment of organic monolayers to the porous silicon surfaces was done to try and passivate against oxidation, and also to explore the possibilities of bioconjugation and tuning of the photoluminescence wavelength. A reaction of hydrogen terminated silicon with ω-undecylenyl alcohol was done using irradiation by a UV source, and successful derivatization was confirmed with IR spectroscopy. Bulk electrochemical etching of silicon provided a method to generate distributed luminescent structures suitable for compartmentalization of reactions within wells of micrometer dimensions without the use of spatially resolved fabrication methodologies such as epitaxial deposition, lithography, or ion beam technologies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".