Porous silicon decorated metallic nanoparticles for growing vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

Abstract

Carbon nanotubes have been envisioned as promising functional materials in nanoelectronics and electron field emitters. All these applications require that the CNT are highly oriented. There are many studies to improve the growth process but only few research studies have investigated new methods to deposit metallic nanoparticles on the porous silicon. Thus this paper is aiming at synthesizing metallic nanoparticles on top of porous silicon.