Browsing by Author "Iratni, Aicha"

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Macropore formation in p-type silicon : toward the modeling of morphology
(Springer New York LLC, 2014) Slimani, Amel; Iratni, Aicha; Henry, Hervé; Plapp, Mathis; Chazalviel, Jean-Noël; Ozanam, François; Gabouze, Noureddine
The formation of macropores in silicon during electrochemical etching processes has attracted much interest. Experimental evidences indicate that charge transport in silicon and in the electrolyte should realistically be taken into account in order to be able to describe the macropore morphology. However, up to now, none of the existing models has the requested degree of sophistication to reach such a goal. Therefore, we have undertaken the development of a mathematical model (phase-field model) to describe the motion and shape of the silicon/electrolyte interface during anodic dissolution. It is formulated in terms of the fundamental expression for the electrochemical potential and contains terms which describe the process of silicon dissolution during electrochemical attack in a hydrofluoric acid (HF) solution. It should allow us to explore the influence of the physical parameters on the etching process and to obtain the spatial profiles across the interface of various quantities of interest, such as the hole concentration, the current density, or the electrostatic potential. As a first step, we find that this model correctly describes the space charge region formed at the silicon side of the interface
Ostwald Ripening Phenomena in B2O3-PbO Glass System
(2009) Aboutaleb, Djamila; Iratni, Aicha; Safi, Brahim
Lead borate glass was prepared by the quench method, followed by treatment at its isothermal temperature at different time periods. When the sample was rapidly cooled from the melt, it showed two distinguished opalescent layers. The SEM analysis and XRD pattern provide characteristics of glass without XRD peaks and their morphology show the aggregated spherical particles in the phase separated glass. This data show that phase separation occurred even when the melts were rapidly cooled. However, the sample shows a Ostwald ripen with increasing time of heat treatment, which implies that the size of particles increases and their number decreases. The infrared absorption spectra show shift edge for sample glass with heat treatment, which indicates a change of structural configuration, i.e. conversion of tetrahedral boron on triangular boron coordination
Sol-gel synthesis and optical characterization of TiO2 thin films for photovoltaic application
(2015) Arabi, Nour El Houda; Iratni, Aicha; Tala-Ighil, Razika; Capoen, Bruno; Bouazaoui, Mohamed