Talk:Porous silicon

I remember reading in a news article a long time ago that porous silicon has extremely potent explosive properties, or has something to do with the manufacturing of high explosives. Does anyone know anything about this? Sloverlord 13:41, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

• Hydrogenated porous silicon reacts explosively with oxygen at low temperatures. I added a brief mention of it. 65.96.195.181 17:48, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

• Maybe the paper you searched belongs to one of the papers which cited

the two classical followings:

Cullis et al. at Journal of applied physics, vol 82, p909, 1997 Wolkin et al. at Physical Review Letters, vol 82, p197, 1999 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.115.220.39 (talk) 16:18, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Missing: formation mechanism and pre-1990 structural characterisation

This article jumps from Uhlir’s 1956 discovery directly to Canham’s 1990 luminescence work, omitting the foundational research on pore formation mechanisms and structural characterisation carried out in the 1984–1988 period. This work is cited in essentially every review paper and handbook chapter on porous silicon (see e.g. Smith, Chuang & Collins, J. Electron. Mater. 17, 533 (1988); Halimaoui in Vial & Derrien (eds), Porous Silicon Science and Technology, Springer 1995; Bisi, Ossicini & Pavesi, Surf. Sci. Rep. 38, 1 (2000); Sailor, Porous Silicon in Practice, Wiley 2012), yet is entirely absent from this Wikipedia article. The key missing papers are: • Beale MIJ, Benjamin JD, Uren MJ, Chew NG, Cullis AG, “An experimental and theoretical study of the formation and microstructure of porous silicon,” J. Cryst. Growth 73, 622–636 (1985). • Beale MIJ, Chew NG, Uren MJ, Cullis AG, Benjamin JD, “Microstructure and formation mechanism of porous silicon,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 46, 86–88 (1985). • Beale MIJ, Benjamin JD, Uren MJ, Chew NG, Cullis AG, “The formation of porous silicon by chemical stain etches,” J. Cryst. Growth 75, 408–414 (1986). These papers established the first theoretical model of the pore formation mechanism, the first TEM characterisation of the porous microstructure. This work was carried out at RSRE Malvern (later DERA, now QinetiQ). I note that this article was written almost entirely in a single edit on 24 May 2007 by a single-purpose account (“PSupdate”) and has had no substantive expert revision since. I am proposing additions to address this gap. Disclosure: I am M.I.J. Beale, first author on three of the above papers, and am flagging this per WP:COI. The citations are independently verifiable in any porous silicon review. MIJBeale (talk) 09:42, 11 March 2026 (UTC)