Nanostructured Metal Films Formed onto Porous Silicon Template

Abstract

The review reports results of our research work on nanostructured metal films on porous silicon. Principal steps of the techniques allowing fabrication of metal films completely inheriting morphological pattern of different types of porous silicon are presented. It is shown, that imprinting of the nanostructured pattern to metal films by means of porous silicon template opens their new structural, optical, mechanical and electrical properties, which can be successfully applied in nanoelectronics and biomedicine, particularly including devices based on superconductivity effect, SERS analysis with picomolar sensitivity and transdermal drug delivery by electroporation.