Vladimir Kochergin is principal investigator at Luna Innovations, Inc, a company which he joined after spending five years as senior scientist with Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. He holds a PhD in physics from Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.Helmut Föll is a professor at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, where he was the first dean of the Faculty of Engineering and where he is currently executive director of the Institute of Materials Science.

• Pore Etching Essentials.- Subwavelength Approach of Light Propagation Through Porous Semiconductors.- Leaky Waveguide Approach of Light Propagation Through Porous Semiconductors.- Normal Waveguide Approach of Light Propagation Through Porous Semiconductors.- Optical Components from Mesoporous Silicon.- Long Wave Pass Filters.- Macroporous Silicon Ultraviolet Filters.- Polarization Components for the UV Range.- Retroreflection Suppression Plate.- Omnidirectional IR Filters.- Biochemical Sensors Based on Porous Silicon.

From the reviews: "Kochergin (Luna Innovations) and Foll (Univ. of Kiel, Germany) focus primarily on silicon's experimentally measured properties and applications ... . Each chapter contains a useful list of recent citations. This monograph is particularly valuable for researchers; graduate students in physics, materials engineering, optics, or electrical engineering; and industrial engineers. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate through professional collections." (J. Lambropoulos, Choice, Vol. 47 (9), May, 2010)