This Special Issue on "Advanced Thin Film Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications" aims to present the current state of the art and identify future prospects in the research, design, and application of advanced energy materials. This Special Issue aims to focus on the advances in this attractive field of research, encouraging a multidisciplinary … - Download [PDF]
This Special Issue on "Advanced Thin Film Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications" aims to present the current state of the art and identify future prospects in the research, design, and application of advanced energy materials. This Special Issue aims to focus on the advances in this attractive field of research, encouraging a multidisciplinary …
2.1 Historical timeline of WO 3 based thin film electrodes. In 1841, chemist Robert Oxland pioneered procedures for preparing WO 3 and sodium tungstate, securing patents and laying the foundation for systematic tungsten chemistry [].The early 2000s saw pivotal studies on WO 3 electrochemical properties, crucial for energy storage devices [19, 34].
Using the radio frequency magnetron sputtering process, NaNbO3-based antiferroelectric thin films were obtained on Pt(111)/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates. The effects of annealing temperature on the phase structure, dielectric properties, ferroelectric properties, and energy storage properties of the thin films were studied. As the annealing temperature …
Highest Performance Data Exemplars for Dielectric Energy Storage Systems of Different Materials, Including the Bulky BOPP, Perovskite Relaxor Ferroelectric (RFE) and Antiferroelectric (AFE) Thin Films, and Ferroelectric (FE) and AFE …
At present, the compatibility of energy and the environment has become the focus of global attention, and the development of available green energy has been put on the agenda, which puts forward higher requirements for energy storage materials [1,2,3].Dielectric film capacitors can satisfy the needs of microelectronics systems and advanced pulsed …
The challenge, however, has always been to grow this niobium oxide material into thin, flat layers, or ''films'' that are of high enough quality to be used in practical applications. This problem stems from the complex structure of T -Nb 2 O 5 and the existence of many similar forms, or polymorphs, of niobium oxide.
The thin film was meticulously examined for its potential in supercapacitive energy storage and photocatalytic applications. • A supercapacitance of 553.8 F g −1 was obtained, accentuating remarkable energy storage proficiencies. • Thin film''s effectiveness as a photocatalyst was perceived through substantial degradation of organic ...
For solving the trade-off relationship of the polarization and breakdown electric field, ferroelectric films with high polarization are playing a critical role in energy storage capacitor applications, especially at moderate/low electric fields. In this work, we propose a multiscale structure (including defect, domain, and grain structures) synergetic optimization …
Nanostructured metal oxide thin films have become the desired electrode material for energy storage applications due to their higher surface area and appropriate pore size distribution. Herein, a brief literature survey is made regarding metal oxide thin films for supercapacitor application deposited by the spray pyrolysis technique. Many metal oxide films …
Thin film lithium batteries are an increasingly important field of energy storage, solving the problem of what to do when the sun goes down or the wind stops. Instead of liquid or polymer gel materials, solid-state battery technology uses solid electrodes and a solid electrolyte. Safer and with higher-energy densities, solid-state batteries show promise for pacemakers, …
Here, medium-entropy relaxor ferroelectric (Bi0.7Na0.67Li0.03)0.5Sr0.3TiO3 (BNLST) thin films with A-site chemical heterogeneity, synthesized by a chemical solution method, are studied as dielectric capacitors for the energy storage application. Mn doping is utilized to occupy cation vacancies to improve the electrical properties. High energy density …
First of all, any sort of thin film provides material saving. For many years, the cost and weight reductions related to the employment of thin films, as opposed to bulk materials, were among the main driving forces of their extensive development. Nowadays, the availability of many raw materials is seriously decreasing, while both the energy and ...
By introducing super tetragonal nanostructures into glassy ferroelectric with MPB composition, a giant energy storage density of ≈86 J cm −3 with a high energy …
This study demonstrates an ultra-thin multilayer approach to enhance the energy storage performance of ferroelectric-based materials. The ultra-thin structure in BiFeO 3 …
In this work, the 0.68BiFeO 3-0.32BaTiO 3 (BFBT) ferroelectric thin film was fabricated with high maximum polarization for energy storage applications. BFBT thin film with pure perovskite phase was deposited on Pt/Ti/SiO 2 /Si substrates at 600°C by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) method. We measured the ferroelectric hysteresis, dielectric properties and …
Heterostructure is highly effective to improve the energy storage properties of the thin films for one phase provides large polarization and the other phase maintains high electrical breakdown strength. In this paper, the two-layered and the sandwich-structured BFO/STO thin films were prepared by a sol–gel method, respectively. The influence of BFO …
Electrochemical energy storage and conversion are represented as the most effective technologies for the utilization of energy. To obtain higher energy densities and energy conversion efficiency, developing advanced high-performance materials and thin films for electrochemical energy storage and conversion is of vital importance. This Special ...
1.4 Current electrode materials for thin film energy storage. Current commercial flexible energy storage system contains anode and cathode are regularly exclusive based on the intercalation/ deintercalation principal of potassium or lithium ions. Even though these flexible energy storage system by now exhibit a greatly upgraded when compared to …
Flexible ferroelectric films with high polarization hold great promise for energy storage and electrocaloric (EC) refrigeration. Herein, we fabricate a lead-free Mn-modified 0.75 Bi(Mg0.5Ti0.5)O3–0.25 BaTiO3 (BMT–BTO) thin film based on a flexible mica substrate. Excellent EC performance with maximum adiabatic temperature change (ΔT ∼23.5 K) and …
In this work, an exceptional room-temperature energy storage performance with W r ∼ 86 J cm −3, η ∼ 81% is obtained under a moderate electric field of 1.7 MV cm −1 in 0.94(Bi, Na)TiO 3-0.06BaTiO 3 (BNBT) thin films composed of super-T polar clusters embedded into normal R and T nanodomains. The super-T nanoclusters with a c/a ratio up to ≈1.25 are …
Magnetron-sputtered thin-film materials have demonstrated applicability across a diverse array of sectors, primarily in the realms of manufacturing, electronics, semiconductor devices, transparent thin-film transistors, photoelectric detectors, optical coatings, solar cells, aerospace, biomedical domains, and more. Devices often necessitate specific materials …
Meanwhile, the grain size of nanocrystalline is very small. No dipole in the amorphous structure and the incomplete inversion of the small nanocrystalline structure within the film, which reduce the energy loss and demonstrate excellent stability. It indicates that the STO-BFO thin films is a potential material for energy storage application.
The energy storage thin films include single metal oxide films, perovskite structure films, and other structures of multi-metal oxide films. 3.2.1 Single metal oxide films energy storage Single metal oxides are usually prepared by atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology, and the thickness of the films is relatively thin.
Electrode materials of dielectric thin-film capacitors have significant effect on their energy storage properties. In this work, Ba 0.53 Sr 0.47 TiO 3 thin films were successfully deposited on LaNiO 3 or La 0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO 3 buffered (001) SrTiO 3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition method (abbreviated as BST/LNO/STO and BST/LSMO/STO, respectively). The …
As the increasing demands for energy, and together with declining available of original primary energy, the importance of the development and application of energy storage material become a research hotspot [1,2,3].Dielectric thin film capacitors, which possess fast charge and discharge speed, high power density and high breakdown strength, but …
In dielectric energy storage materials, polymer dielectrics have become the preferred materials for dielectric capacitors due to the high breakdown strength, good flexibility, and high reliability. The energy storage …
High-temperature polyimide dielectric materials for energy storage: Theory, design, preparation and properties. ... Antiferroelectric thin-film capacitors with high energy-storage densities, low energy losses, and fast discharge times. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2015, 7: 26381–26386. Crossref Google Scholar [58] Yang BB, Guo MY, Li CH, et al. Flexible ultrahigh energy …
The enhanced breakdown strength and polarization of the nanocrystalline engineering is further verified through the theoretical phase-field simulations along with experimental results. These results indicate that this is a feasible and scalable route to develop dielectric thin film materials with a high energy storage capability.
1. Introduction Ferroelectrics are materials that possess spontaneous polarization without an external electric field, and the orientations of the polarization vector can be switched with the application of an electric field. 1 Thin-film ferroelectrics are important subjects of ferroelectric materials. The research on ferroelectric thin films can be traced back to the 1960s, when the ...
[1, 4-8] Recent studies focused on the enhancement of the energy-storage density of dielectric thin-film capacitors by using advanced materials and novel device architectures, [9, 10] employing also ferroelectric …