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Integrated Silicon-Metal Systems at the Nanoscale

Applications in Photonics, Quantum Computing, Networking, and Internet

  • 1st Edition - April 12, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Munir H. Nayfeh, Ammar Nayfeh
  • Language: English

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Description

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, 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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Academia: Researchers and advanced students in nanomaterials and nanotechnology, electronics engineering, quantum computing, physics, and materials engineering. Industry: Materials engineers, scientists, and R&D professionals with an interest in silicon-metal nanodevices for state-of-the-art applications

Table of contents

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 13, 2023
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Munir H. Nayfeh

Munir Nayfeh is Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, USA, and President, NanoSi Advanced Technologies, Inc. He has previously worked at Yale and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and is the founder of both, Nano Silicon Solar, Inc and Parasat-NanoSi, LLC .His specialist areas are atomic, molecular, laser spectroscopy, and nanotechnology.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Physics, University of Illinois and President, NanoSi Advanced Technologies, Inc, USA

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Ammar Nayfeh

Professor Ammar Nayfeh was born in Urbana IL in 1979. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in 2001 in electrical engineering and his master's degree in 2003 from Stanford University. Dr. Nayfeh earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2006. His research focused on heteroepitaxy of germanium on silicon for electronic and photonic devices. After his PhD, he joined Advanced Micro Devices as a researcher working in collaboration with IBM. After that he joined a silicon valley startup company, Innovative Silicon (ISi) in 2008. In addition, he was a part time professor at San Jose State University. In June 2010, he joined MIT as a visiting scholar and became a faculty member at the Masdar Institute currently Khalifa University. His research interest focuses on nanotechnology for future more efficient low power electronic and photonic devices. Professor Nayfeh is currently an associate professor in the Department Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Khalifa University. Professor Ammar Nayfeh has authored or co-authored over 100 publications, and holds three patents. He is a member of IEEE, MRS and Stanford Alumni Association. He has received the Material Research Society Graduate Student Award, the Robert C. Maclinche Scholarship at UIUC, and Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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