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High-Performance Nanostructured Flexible Capacitor by Plasma-Induced Low-Temperature Atomic Layer Annealing
Authors
Jaehyeong Lee, Dohyun Go, Useung Lee, Seunghyeon Lee, Keun Hoi Kim, Jeong Woo Shin, Hyein Kim, Jong G. Ok, and Jihwan An
Journal
Advanced Materials Technologies
Vol
8 (1), 2201134 (Jan 2023)
Year
2023
Fabricating high-quality thin films on a 3D structured polymer substrate is crucial in realizing high-performance flexible electronics. Herein, simple yet effective twofold strategies are demonstrated to directly fabricate flexible thin film capacitors on polymer substrate: the crystallization of high-k TiO2 film by plasma-assisted atomic layer annealing at low temperature (80 °C) on nanostructured polycarbonate (PC) substrates fabricated by simple dynamic nanoinscribing (DNI) technique. Plasma-induced amorphous-to-anatase phase transformation occurs in PEALD TiO2/ZrO2 bilayer thin films, resulting in the capacitance density increase by 30%. The DNI patterning of PC substrates in two directions further increases the surface area by 35% and the capacitance density by 37%, leading to the flexible capacitor of a record-high capacitance density (24.2 nF mm−2) with mechanical stability.