scholarly journals Large area metasurfaces made with spherical silicon resonators

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 943-951
Author(s):  
Pau Molet ◽  
Luz Karimé Gil-Herrera ◽  
Juan Luis Garcia-Pomar ◽  
Niccolò Caselli ◽  
Álvaro Blanco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Light Emission ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
High Refractive Index ◽  
Dielectric Substrate ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Plasmonic Nanostructures ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Silicon Resonators

AbstractHigh-index dielectric nanostructures have emerged as an appealing complement to plasmonic nanostructures, offering similar light management capabilities at the nanoscale but free from the inherent optical losses. Despite the great interest in these all-dielectric architectures, their fabrication still requires cumbersome fabrication techniques that limit their implementation in many applications. Hence, the great interest in alternative scalable procedures. Among those, the fabrication of silicon spheres is at the forefront, with several routes available in the literature. However, the exploitation of the Mie modes sustained by these silicon resonators is limited over large areas by polydispersity or a lack of long-range order. Here, we present an all-dielectric metamaterial fabricated with a low cost and highly scalable technique: a combination of soft imprinting nanolithography and chemical vapor deposition. The resulting all-dielectric metasurface is composed of an array of silicon hemispheres on top of a high refractive index dielectric substrate. This architecture allows the exploitation of high-quality Mie resonances at a large scale due to the high monodispersity of the hemispheres organized in a single crystal two-dimensional lattice. The optical response of the metasurface can be engineered by the design parameters of the nanoimprinted structure. We further demonstrate the potential of this platform to enhance light emission by coupling dye molecules to the sustained Mie resonances and measuring both an eight-fold amplified signal and a triple lifetime reduction.

scholarly journals Interfacial Manipulation via In-Situ Grown ZnSe Overlayer toward Highly Reversible Zn Metal Anodes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianzhong Yang ◽  
Chao Li ◽  
Zhongti Sun ◽  
Shuai Yang ◽  
Zixiong Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Coulombic Efficiency ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Side Reactions ◽  
Water Penetration ◽  
Metal Anode ◽  
Zn Anode ◽  
Manipulation Strategy

Abstract Zn metal anode has garnered growing scientific and industrial interest owing to its appropriate redox potential, low cost and good safety. Nevertheless, the instability of Zn metal, caused by dendrite formation, hydrogen evolution and side reactions, gives rise to poor electrochemical stability and unsatisfactory cycling life, greatly hampering large-scale utilization. Herein, an in-situ grown ZnSe layer with controllable thickness is crafted over one side of commercial Zn foil via chemical vapor deposition, aiming to achieve optimized interfacial manipulation between aqueous electrolyte/Zn anode. Thus-derived ZnSe overlayer not only prevents water penetration and restricts Zn2+ two-dimensional diffusion, but also homogenizes the electric field at the interface and facilitates favorable (002) plane growth of Zn. As a result, dendrite-free and homogeneous Zn deposition is obtained; side reactions are concurrently inhibited. In consequence, a high Coulombic efficiency of 99.2% and high cyclic stability for 860 cycles at 1.0 mA cm–2 in symmetrical cells is harvested. Meanwhile, when paired with V2O5 cathode, assembled full cell achieves an outstanding initial capacity (200 mAh g–1) and elongated lifespan (a capacity retention of 84% after 1000 cycles) at 5.0 A g–1. Our highly reversible Zn anode enabled by the interfacial manipulation strategy is anticipated to satisfy the demand of industrial and commercial use.

Diamond Films: Recent Developments

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 16-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter M. Gruen ◽  
Ian Buckley-Golder
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Diamond Films ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Single Crystal Diamond

Carbon in the form of diamond is the stuff of dreams, and the image of the diamond evokes deep and powerful emotions in humans. Following the successful synthesis of diamond by high-pressure methods in the 1950s, the startling development of the low-pressure synthesis of diamond films in the 1970s and 1980s almost immediately engendered great expectations of utility. The many remarkable properties of diamond due in part to its being the most atomically dense material in the universe (hardness, thermal conductivity, friction coefficient, transparency, etc.) could at last be put to use in a multitude of practical applications. “The holy grail”—it was realized early on—would be the development of large-area, doped, single-crystal diamond wafers for the fabrication of high-temperature, extremely fast integrated circuits leading to a revolution in computer technology.Excitement in the community of chemical-vapor-deposition (CVD) diamond researchers, funding agencies, and industrial companies ran high in expectation of early realization for many of the commercial goals that had been envisioned: tool, optical, and corrosion-resistant coatings; flat-panel displays; thermomanagement for electronic components, etc. Market projection predicting diamond-film sales in the billions of dollars by the year 2000 was commonplace. Hopes were dashed when these optimistic predictions ran up against the enormous scientific and technical problems that had to be overcome in order for those involved to fully exploit the potential of diamond. This experience is not new to the scientific community. One need only remind oneself of the hopes for cheap nuclear power or for high-temperature superconducting wires available at hardware stores to realize that the lag between scientific discoveries and their large-scale applications can be very long. Diamond films are in fact being used today in commercial applications.

scholarly journals Localized Surface Plasmons Enhanced Light Transmission into c-Silicon Solar Cells

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Premkumar Singh ◽  
Amit Jain ◽  
Avinashi Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Metallic Nanoparticles ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Light Transmission ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Solar Spectrum ◽  
Localized Surface Plasmon ◽  
Plasmonic Nanostructures ◽  
Al Nanoparticles

The paper investigates the light incoupling into c-Si solar cells due to the excitation of localized surface plasmon resonances in periodic metallic nanoparticles by finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique. A significant enhancement of AM1.5G solar radiation transmission has been demonstrated by depositing nanoparticles of various metals on the upper surface of a semi-infinite Si substrate. Plasmonic nanostructures located close to the cell surface can scatter incident light efficiently into the cell. Al nanoparticles were found to be superior to Ag, Cu, and Au nanoparticles due to the improved transmission of light over almost the entire solar spectrum and, thus, can be a potential low-cost plasmonic metal for large-scale implementation of solar cells.

Optimization of Chemical Vapor Deposition Process

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradeep George ◽  
Hae Chang Gea ◽  
Yogesh Jaluria
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Chemical Vapor Deposition ◽  
Response Surface ◽  
Vapor Deposition ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Deposition Process ◽  
Transport Processes ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Large Area

Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) process is simulated and optimized for the deposition of a thin film of silicon from silane. The key focus is on the rate of deposition and on the quality of the thin film produced. The intended application dictates the level of quality need for the film. Proper control of the governing transport processes results in large area film thickness and composition uniformity. A vertical impinging CVD reactor is considered. The goal is to optimize the CVD system. The effect of important design parameters and operating conditions are studied using numerical simulations. Then Compromise Response Surface Method (CRSM) is used to model the process over a range of susceptor temperature and inlet velocity of the reaction gases. The resulting response surface is used to optimize the CVD system.

Liquid Metal Printing for Manufacturing Large-Scale Flexible Electronic Circuits

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Zheng ◽  
Zhi-Zhu He ◽  
Jun Yang ◽  
Jing Liu
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Metal ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Printed Electronics ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Treatment Temperature ◽  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
Plastic Substrate ◽  
Electronic Circuits ◽  
Large Area

The advancement of printed electronics technology has significantly facilitated the development of electronic engineering. However, so far there still remain big barriers to impede the currently available printing technologies from being extensively used. Many of the difficulties came from the factors like: complicated ink-configurations, high post-treatment temperature, poor conductivity in room temperature and extremely high cost and time consuming fabrication process. From an alternative strategy, our recently invented desktop liquid metal printer offered a flexible way to better address the above deficiencies. Through modifying the system developed in the authors’ lab, here we demonstrated the feasibility of the method in quickly and reliably printing out various large area electronic circuits. Particularly, the liquid metal ink made of GaIn24.5 alloy, with a high electrical resistivity of 2.98×10−7 Ω·m, can be rapidly printed on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) substrate with maximum sizes spanning from centimeter size to meter large. Most important of all, all these manufactures were achieved at an extremely low cost level which clearly shows the ubiquitous value of the liquid metal printer. To evaluate the working performance of the present electronics fabrication method, the electrical resistance and wire width of the printed circuits were investigated under multiple overprinting cycles. For practical illustration purpose, LED lighting conductive patterns which can serve as a functional electronic decoration art were fabricated on the flexible plastic substrate. The present work sets up an example for directly making large-scale ending consumer electronics via a high-efficiency and low-cost way.

scholarly journals High-Sensitivity Flexible Pressure Sensor-Based 3D CNTs Sponge for Human–Computer Interaction

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 3465
Author(s):  
Jianli Cui ◽  
Xueli Nan ◽  
Guirong Shao ◽  
Huixia Sun
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Sensor ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Pressure Sensors ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Flexible Pressure Sensors

Researchers are showing an increasing interest in high-performance flexible pressure sensors owing to their potential uses in wearable electronics, bionic skin, and human–machine interactions, etc. However, the vast majority of these flexible pressure sensors require extensive nano-architectural design, which both complicates their manufacturing and is time-consuming. Thus, a low-cost technology which can be applied on a large scale is highly desirable for the manufacture of flexible pressure-sensitive materials that have a high sensitivity over a wide range of pressures. This work is based on the use of a three-dimensional elastic porous carbon nanotubes (CNTs) sponge as the conductive layer to fabricate a novel flexible piezoresistive sensor. The synthesis of a CNTs sponge was achieved by chemical vapor deposition, the basic underlying principle governing the sensing behavior of the CNTs sponge-based pressure sensor and was illustrated by employing in situ scanning electron microscopy. The CNTs sponge-based sensor has a quick response time of ~105 ms, a high sensitivity extending across a broad pressure range (less than 10 kPa for 809 kPa−1) and possesses an outstanding permanence over 4,000 cycles. Furthermore, a 16-pixel wireless sensor system was designed and a series of applications have been demonstrated. Its potential applications in the visualizing pressure distribution and an example of human–machine communication were also demonstrated.

scholarly journals Development of a highly controlled system for large-area, directional printing of quasi-1D nanomaterials

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adamos Christou ◽  
Fengyuan Liu ◽  
Ravinder Dahiya
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Sem Images ◽  
Contact Printing ◽  
Controlled System ◽  
Printing System ◽  
Sliding Distance ◽  
Novel Design

AbstractPrinting is a promising method for the large-scale, high-throughput, and low-cost fabrication of electronics. Specifically, the contact printing approach shows great potential for realizing high-performance electronics with aligned quasi-1D materials. Despite being known for more than a decade, reports on a precisely controlled system to carry out contact printing are rare and printed nanowires (NWs) suffer from issues such as location-to-location and batch-to-batch variations. To address this problem, we present here a novel design for a tailor-made contact printing system with highly accurate control of printing parameters (applied force: 0–6 N ± 0.3%, sliding velocity: 0–200 mm/s, sliding distance: 0–100 mm) to enable the uniform printing of nanowires (NWs) aligned along 93% of the large printed area (1 cm2). The system employs self-leveling platforms to achieve optimal alignment between substrates, whereas the fully automated process minimizes human-induced variation. The printing dynamics of the developed system are explored on both rigid and flexible substrates. The uniformity in printing is carefully examined by a series of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images and by fabricating a 5 × 5 array of NW-based photodetectors. This work will pave the way for the future realization of highly uniform, large-area electronics based on printed NWs.

Tunable large-area phase reversion in chemical vapor deposited few-layer MoTe2 films

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (34) ◽  
pp. 10598-10604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xukun Zhu ◽  
Aolin Li ◽  
Di Wu ◽  
Peng Zhu ◽  
Haiyan Xiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Heat Treatment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Reversible Phase Transition ◽  
Chemical Vapor Deposited ◽  
Reversible Phase

A local large-scale reversible phase transition of MoTe2 film was accomplished through the heat treatment.

Scale-up of oCVD: large-area conductive polymer thin films for next-generation electronics

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kovacik ◽  
Gabriella del Hierro ◽  
William Livernois ◽  
Karen K. Gleason
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Chemical Vapor Deposition ◽  
Polymer Films ◽  
Vapor Deposition ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Conductive Polymer ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Large Area

We demonstrate large-area conductive polymer films using oxidative chemical vapor deposition and apply them to low-cost and durable conductive textiles.

scholarly journals Large Area Graphene Deposition on Hydrophobic Surfaces, Flexible Textiles, Glass Fibers and 3D Structures

Coatings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guobin Jia ◽  
Jonathan Plentz ◽  
Jan Dellith ◽  
Andrea Dellith ◽  
Ruri Wahyuono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Glass Substrate ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Glass Fibers ◽  
Flat Glass ◽  
Peel Test ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Thin Glass ◽  
Graphene Flakes

Graphene and its derivatives have many superior electrical, thermal, mechanical, chemical, and structural properties, and promise for many applications. One of the issues for scalable applications is the lack of a simple, reliable method that allows the deposit of a well-ordered monolayer using low-cost graphene flakes onto target substrates with different surface properties. Another issue is the adhesion of the deposited graphene thin film, which has not been well investigated yet. Following our former finding of a double self-assembly (DSA) process for efficient deposition of a monolayer of graphene flakes (MGFs), in this work we demonstrate that the DSA process can be applied even on very challenging samples including highly hydrophobic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), flexible textiles, complex 3D objects, and thin glass fibers. Additionally, we tested adhesion of the graphene flakes on the flat glass substrate by scotch tape peel test of the MGFs. The results show that the graphene flakes adhere quite well on the flat glass substrate and most of the graphene flakes stay on the glass. These findings may trigger many large-scale applications of low-cost graphene feedstocks and other 2D materials.

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