Not exact matches
The results of this work could lead to the ability to design materials that have extensive surface areas that can be used in batteries
as high durability
silicon electrodes.
High - energy materials, such
as metal oxides and
silicon anodes, have massive volume changes when lithium ions are injected and extracted from the
electrode material.
Scientists have tried building the
electrodes out of common semiconductors such
as silicon or gallium arsenide — which absorb light and are also used in solar panels — but a major problem is that these materials develop an oxide layer (that is, rust) when exposed to water.
As a potential contact
electrode and interconnection material, wafer - scale graphene could be an essential component in microelectronic circuits, but most graphene fabrication methods are not compatible with
silicon microelectronics, thus blocking graphene's leap from potential wonder material to actual profit - maker.
The artificial synaptic TFT consisted of indium zinc oxide (IZO),
as both a channel and a gate
electrode, separated by a 550 - nanometre - thick film of nanogranular
silicon dioxide electrolyte, which was fabricated using a process known
as chemical vapour deposition.
The coating is a nickel oxide film that prevents rusts building - up on the semiconductor
electrodes (
silicon or gallium arsenide), while also acting
as a highly reactive catalysis.
In this study, a chronically stable class of thin ‐ film devices for electrocorticography is manufactured incorporating
silicon carbide and diamond ‐ like carbon
as adhesion promoters between glassy carbon (GC)
electrodes and polyimide and between GC and platinum traces.
The researchers used the single layer of
silicon atoms
as the channel in a field - effect transistor, which shuttles charge from the source to the drain
electrodes (Nat.