Porous Silicon: From Formation to Applications: Optoelectronics, Microelectronics, and Energy Technology Applications, Volume Three

Chapter 12

Porous Silicon in Micro-Fuel Cells

Gael Gautier and Ghenadii Korotcenkov

12.1 Introduction

Energy consumption has increased dramatically during the past decades in order to functionalize electrical appliances, provide heat sources, generate light sources, and communicate in daily routine. With breakthroughs in technological developments, these electrical needs are intensified. All this requires an increase in the power of stationary generating stations. At the same time, the last decade has seen an explosion in the number of portable devices such as cell phones and notebooks, medical devices, military applications, microdevices, and microsystems, which integrate more complex and energy consuming functions like wireless communications ...