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High Performance Wearable/Flexible Energy Storage Devices Based on Ultrathin $Ni(OH)_2$ Coated ZnO Nanowires

  • Shakir, Imran;Park, Jong-Jin;Kang, Dae-Joon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.02a
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    • pp.597-597
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    • 2012
  • A simple solution-based method is developed to deposit crystalline ultrathin (2 nm) nickel hydroxide on vertically grown ZnO nanowires to achieve high specific capacitance and long-term life for flexible and wearable energy storage devices. Ultrathin crystalline $Ni(OH)_2$ enables fast and reversible redox reaction to improve the specific capacitance by utilizing maximum number of active sites for the redox reaction while vertically grown ZnO nanowires on wearable textile fiber effectively transport electrolytes and shorten the ion diffusion path. Under the highly flexible state $Ni(OH)_2$ coated ZnO nanowires electrode shows a high specific capacitance of 2150 F/g (based on pristine $Ni(OH)_2$ in 1 M LiOH aqueous solution with negligible decrease in specific capacitance after 1000 cycles. The synthesized energy-storage electrodes are easy-to-assemble which can provide unprecedented design ingenuity for a variety of wearable and flexible electronic devices.

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Dielectrical Characteristics of Ultrathin Reoxidized Nitrided Oxides by Rapid Thermal Process (급속 열처리 공정에 의한 초박막 재산화 질화산화막의 유전 특성)

  • 이용재;안점영
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.1179-1185
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    • 1991
  • Ultrathin Reoxidized Nitrided Oxides were formed by lamp heated rapid thermal annealing in oxyzen at temperatures of $1050^{\circ}C$-$1100^{\circ}C$ for 20, 40 seconds. The electrical characteristics of ultrathin films were evaluated by leakage current breakdown voltage. TDDB. FN tunneling. Nitridation and reoxidition condition dependence of charge trapping properties. i.e.. the flat band voltage shift $({\Delta}V_{FB})$ and the increase of charge-to-breakdown $(Q_{BD})$ induced by a high field stress where studied. As the results of analysis. rapid thermal reoxidation was achieved striking improvement of dielectric integrity, the charge to breakdown was increased and flat band voltage shift was reduced.

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Effect of Ultrathin Al2O3 Layer on TiO2 Surface in CdS/CdSe Co-Sensitized Quantum Dot Solar Cells

  • Sung, Sang Do;Lim, Iseul;Kim, Myung Soo;Lee, Wan In
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.411-414
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    • 2013
  • In order to enhance the photovoltaic property of the CdS/CdSe co-sensitized quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs), the surface of nanoporous $TiO_2$ photoanode was modified by ultrathin $Al_2O_3$ layer before the deposition of quantum dots (QDs). The $Al_2O_3$ layer, dip-coated by 0.10 M Al precursor solution, exhibited the optimized performance in blocking the back-reaction of the photo-injected electrons from $TiO_2$ conduction band (CB) to polysulfide electrolyte. Transient photocurrent spectra revealed that the electron lifetime (${\tau}_e$) increased significantly by introducing the ultrathin $Al_2O_3$ layer on $TiO_2$ surface, whereas the electron diffusion coefficient ($D_e$) was not varied. As a result, the $V_{oc}$ increased from 0.487 to 0.545 V, without appreciable change in short circuit current ($J_{sc}$), thus inducing the enhancement of photovoltaic conversion efficiency (${\eta}$) from 3.01% to 3.38%.

Enhanced Performance of the OLED with Plasma Treated ITO and Plasma Polymerized Methyl Methacrylate Buffer Layer (ITO 플라즈마 표면처리와 ppMMA 버퍼층으로 제작한 OLED의 발광특성)

  • Lim Jae-Sung;Shin Paik-Kvun
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.55 no.1
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    • pp.30-33
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    • 2006
  • Transparent indium tin oxide (ITO) anode surface was modified using $O_3$ Plasma and organic ultrathin buffer layers were deposited on the ITO surface using 13.56 MHz RF plasma polymerization technique. The EL efficiency, operating voltage and lifetime of the organic light-emitting device (OLED) were investigated in order to study the effect of the plasma surface treatment and role of plasma polymerized organic ultrathin buffer layer. Poly methylmethacrylate (PMMA) layers were plasma polymerized on the ITO anode as buffer layer between anode and hole transport layer (HTL). The plasma polymerization of the organic ultrathin layer were carried out at a homemade capacitive-coupled RF plasma equipment. N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'(3- methylphenyl)-1,1'-diphenyl-4,4'-diamine (TPD) as HTL, Tris(8-hydroxyquinolinato) Aluminum $(Alq_3)$ as both emitting layer (EML)/electron transport layer (ETL), and aluminum layer as cathode were deposited using thermal evaporation technique. Effects of the plasma surface treatment of ITO and plasma polymerized buffer layers on the OLED performance were discussed.

In situ Stress Measurements with Submonolayer Sensitivity As a Probe of Coherent-to-incoherent Matching at an Interface in Ultrathin Magnetic Films

  • Jeong, Jong-Ryul;Kim, Young-Seok;Shin, Sung-Chul
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.151-155
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    • 2002
  • In situ stress changes at interfaces of ultrathin magnetic films were measured by means of a non-contact optical fiber bundle displacement detector. A bending of the substrate due to stress of a deposited film was detected in cantilever geometry. The highest sensitivity of 134 mV/$\mu$m for the displacement detector was realized with a help of computer simulation. The detector was applied to in situ stress measurements of Co/Pt and Ni/Pd magnetic multilayer films prepared on the glass substrates by dc magnetron sputtering. The detector turned out to have a submonolayer sensitivity that enables to observe coherent-to-incoherent transition in these mismatched multilayers and even detect the stress changes within the monoatomic coverage. This highly sensitive detector paves new way to probe the stress relaxation at an interface in ultrathin films.