3796 results about "High conductivity" patented technology

Composite electrodes including carbon nanofibers (fibrils) and an electrochemically active material are provided for use in electrochemical capacitors. The fibril composite electrodes exhibit high conductivity, improved efficiency of active materials, high stability, easy processing, and increase the performance of the capacitor. A method for producing the composite electrodes for use in electrochemical capacitors is also provided.

Dual damascene methods and structures are provided for IC interconnects which use a dual-damascene process incorporating a low-k dielectric material, high conductivity metal, and an improved hard mask scheme. A pair of hard masks are employed: a silicon dioxide layer and a silicon nitride layer, wherein the silicon dioxide layer acts to protect the silicon nitride layer during dual damascene etch processing, but is subsequently sacrificed during CMP, allowing the silicon nitride layer to act as a the CMP hard mask. In this way, delamination of the low-k material is prevented, and any copper-contaminated silicon dioxide material is removed.

A first flux-loop inductive coupler element electrically couples with a second flux-loop inductive coupler element. The first flux-loop inductive coupler element comprises a first ring-like core having high magnetic permeability and a conical-section annular first face transverse to the plane of the first core. The first face has a first annular groove separating a first conical-section larger-diameter face and a first conical-section smaller-diameter face. A first coil is wound within the annular groove. The first and second cores form a low-reluctance closed magnetic path around the first coil and a second coil of the second flux-loop inductive coupler element.

A first current-loop inductive coupler element electrically couples with a second current-loop inductive coupler element. The first current-loop inductive coupler element has a first high-conductivity, low-permeability shaped belt of a first end of a first pipe joint, a first ring-like core located at the first end, and a first electrically conductive coil wound about the first ring-like core. The first high-conductivity, low-permeability shaped belt partially encloses the first coil. It is shaped to cooperate with the second high-conductivity, low-permeability shaped belt of an adjacent second pipe joint having a second electrically conductive coil and a second high-conductivity, low-permeability shaped belt to create a closed toroidal electrical conducting path. The closed toroidal electrical conducting path encloses the first coil and the second coil when the first and second pipe joints are mated.

A new transparent conducting oxide (TCO), which can be expressed as Al_xGa_3−x−yIn_5+ySn_2−zO_16−2z; 0≦x<1, 0<y<3, 0≦z<2, has been used to improve the brightness and current spreading in GaN base LED process. The optical properties of this system are superior to regular Ni/Au transparent conducting layer in blue-green region, and the new Al₂O₃—Ga₂O₃—In₂O₃—SnO₂ system is able to increase the brightness at 1.5˜2.5 time to compare to regular process. Furthermore, the new transparent conducting oxide thin film has the highest conductivity, which is better than the Ni/Au transparent conducting thin film.

Improved electromagnetic compatibility for integrated motherboard or device board designs is provided by magnetic shielding, electric shielding, or both integrated into the chip packaging materials. Motherboard emissions may be reduced by use of the shielding. A nonconductive primary and tertiary layer sandwich a high-conductivity metal secondary layer forming a Faraday cage for electric field shielding. A nonconductive primary layer is covered by a tertiary layer formed of a composite having permeable material for magnetic shielding. The tertiary layer formed of a composite could include a high permeability particulate ferrous material. Both the secondary layer and the tertiary layer formed of a composite could be used for both electric and magnetic shielding of chips.

The process for manufacturing a through insulated interconnection is performed by forming, in a body of semiconductor material, a trench extending from the front (of the body for a thickness portion thereof; filling the trench with dielectric material; thinning the body starting from the rear until the trench, so as to form an insulated region surrounded by dielectric material; and forming a conductive region extending inside said insulated region between the front and the rear of the body and having a higher conductivity than the first body. The conductive region includes a metal region extending in an opening formed inside the insulated region or of a heavily doped semiconductor region, made prior to filling of the trench.

A method and system for providing a magnetic element that can be used in a magnetic memory is disclosed. The magnetic element includes pinned, spacer, free, and spin barrier layers. The spacer layer is nonmagnetic and resides between the pinned and free layers. The free layer can be switched using spin transfer when a write current is passed through the magnetic element. The free layer resides between the spacer layer and the spin barrier layer. The spin barrier layer is configured to reduce an outer surface contribution to a damping constant of the free layer. In one aspect, the spin barrier layer has a high areal resistance and may substantially eliminate spin pumping induced damping. In another aspect, the magnetic element also includes a spin accumulation layer between the spin barrier and free layers. The spin accumulation layer has a high conductivity, preferably being metallic, and may have a long spin diffusion length.

The invention relates to a graphene composite material and a preparation method thereof. The graphene composite material provided by the invention is characterized in that a graphene material plate fixed on a metallic matrix serves as a carrier, and the elementary substance and/or a compound are compounded on the graphene surface. Meanwhile, the invention also discloses a method for preparing the graphene composite material. The graphene composite material prepared by the invention is opened between graphene sheets and is compounded with a chemical substance under the condition that a space body structure is formed, and the obtained material has high conductivity, high specific surface area and excellent performance of low electrical resistivity between the sheets, and can be widely applied to the fields of energy storage materials such as lithium ion batteries, super-capacitors, super lead carbon batteries, super nickel-carbon electrodes, solar energy and fuel cells, the field of heat dissipation materials, the field of environment-friendly adsorbing materials, the field of sea water desalination materials, the field of photoelectric sensor materials, the biological relevance field, the field of catalyst materials and the fields of conductive ink and coating materials.

A method for making carbon nanotube particulates involves providing a catalyst comprising catalytic metals, such as iron and molybdenum or metals from Group VIB or Group VIIIB elements, on a support material, such as magnesia, and contacting the catalyst with a gaseous carbon-containing feedstock, such as methane, at a sufficient temperature and for a sufficient contact time to make small-diameter carbon nanotubes having one or more walls and outer wall diameters of less than about 3 nm. Removal of the support material from the carbon nanotubes yields particulates of enmeshed carbon nanotubes that retain an approximate three-dimensional shape and size of the particulate support that was removed. The carbon nanotube particulates can comprise ropes of carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotube particulates disperse well in polymers and show high conductivity in polymers at low loadings. As electrical emitters, the carbon nanotube particulates exhibit very low “turn on” emission field.

Described herein are improved capabilities for a system and method for wireless energy distribution across a vehicle compartment of defined area, comprising a source resonator coupled to an energy source of a vehicle and generating an oscillating magnetic field with a frequency, and at least one repeater resonator positioned along the vehicle compartment, the at least one repeater resonator positioned in proximity to the source resonator, the at least one repeater resonator having a resonant frequency and comprising a high-conductivity material adapted and located between the at least one repeater resonator and a vehicle surface to direct the oscillating magnetic field away from the vehicle surface, wherein the at least one repeater resonator provides an effective wireless energy transfer area within the defined area.

A bistable electrical device (50) employing a bistable body (52) and a high conductivity material (54). A sufficient amount of high conductivity material (54) is included in the bistable body (52) to impart bistable between a low resistance state and a high resistance state by application of an electrical voltage (60).

The embodiments of the present invention provide a CMUT array and method of fabricating the same. The CMUT array has CMUT elements individually or respectively addressable from a backside of a substrate on which the CMUT array is fabricated. In one embodiment, a CMUT array is formed on a front side of a very high conductivity silicon substrate. Through wafer trenches are etched into the substrate from the backside of the substrate to electrically isolate individual CMUT elements formed on the front side of the substrate. Electrodes are formed on the backside of the substrate to individually address the CMUT elements through the substrate.

Substrates having modified effective thermal conductivity for use in the sequential lateral solidification process are disclosed. In one arrangement, a substrate includes a glass base layer, a low conductivity layer formed adjacent to a surface of the base layer, a high conductivity layer formed adjacent to the low conductivity layer, a silicon compound layer formed adjacent to the high conductivity layer, and a silicon layer formed on the silicon compound layer. In an alternative arrangement, the substrate includes an internal subsurface melting layer which will act as a heat reservoir during subsequent sequential lateral solidification processing.

Provided is a transparent electrode including a graphene sheet. A transparent electrode having high conductivity, low sheet resistance, and low surface roughness can be prepared by employing the graphene sheet.

The invention relates to a high-conductivity aluminum alloy material for a cable and a preparation method thereof. The aluminum alloy material comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0.25-0.80 percent of iron element, 0.02-0.15 percent of boron element, 0.1-1.5 percent of rare earth element and the balance of aluminum and inevitable impurities. The aluminum alloy is formed by adding an aluminum alloy intermediate alloy, an aluminum-boron alloy and an aluminum-rare earth intermediate alloy into an aluminum ingot of which the purity is more than 99.80 percent by weight and carrying out a casting process and annealing treatment on the mixture. Compared with a common electric aluminum conductor, the prepared aluminum alloy conductor has more excellent conductive performance and the conductivity reaching or exceeding 62.5 percent IACS (International Annealed Copper Standard); the aluminum alloy conductor treated by using a special process has excellent flexibility and creep resistance; and compared with a common electric aluminum conductor, the prepared aluminum alloy material used as a cable extrusion insulating lead core is more energy-saving and safer.

The present invention includes the preparation of highly conducting conjugated polymers and their use as electrochemical actuators, A typical electrochemical actuator comprises a highly conducting, conjugated polymer for the anode or the cathode, or for both the anode and the cathode; suitable conjugate polymers have a conductivity ≧100 S/cm. The material may have any form, including films and fibers. A preferred shape is a strip or a fiber, where the fiber can be solid or hollow, although any shape may be used. Before use, the material may be treated, for example, by immersion in an acid, in order to dope/protonate the material or to introduce anions or to exchange the anion in the polymer for another anion. Other materials may be incorporated in the polyaniline to increase its conductivity or to provide other benefits, such as increased strength. Useful conducting polymers include monomers of anilines, pyrroles, thiophenes, phenylene vinylenes, and derivatives thereof.

The present invention is directed to a novel capacitor. The capacitor may be used in electric double layer capacitors. The capacitors include a polarizable electrode including activated carbon and a non-polarizable electrode including lead dioxide and lead sulfate. The capacitors of the present invention provide considerably higher electric capacity, higher durability, and low resistance, while maintaining high conductivity. Additionally, the electrodes may be produced more quickly and inexpensively.

The invention belongs to the technical field of nanoporous material, namely carbon aerogel, and particularly relates to graphene oxide-crosslinked polyimide-based carbon aerogel and a preparation method thereof. The invention carbon aerogel is prepared by crosslinking polyamide acid aerogel by graphene oxide, and comprises the components of graphene oxide and one or more water-soluble polyimide precursor-polyamide acids. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing an aqueous graphene oxide solution with the water-soluble polyimide precursor-polyamide acid, and preparing graphene oxide/polyamide acid aerogel through sol-gel and freeze-drying processes; preparing the graphene/polyimide-based carbon aerogel through thermal imidization and high temperature carbonization. According to the preparation method, a toxic reagent formaldehyde is not used; the prepared carbon aerogel has a mesoporous, microporous and macroporous three-level three-dimensional network porous structure, high specific surface area, high conductivity and stable physical and chemical properties, and is an ideal electrode material for preparing a supercapacitor and other new energy devices and a high-performance adsorbent material.

A method for preparing polybenzimidazole or polybenzimidazole blend membranes and fabricating gas diffusion electrodes and membrane-electrode assemblies is provided for a high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. Blend polymer electrolyte membranes based on PBI and various thermoplastc polymers for high temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cells have also been developed. Miscible blends are used for solution casting of polymer membranes (solid electrolytes). High conductivity and enhanced mechanical strength were obtained for the blend polymer solid electrolytes. With the thermally resistant polymer, e.g., polybenzimidazole or a mixture of polybenzimidazole and other thermoplastics as binder, the carbon-supported noble metal catalyst is tape-cast onto a hydrophobic supporting substrate. When doped with an acid mixture, electrodes are assembled with an acid doped solid electrolyte membrane by hot-press. The fuel cell can operate at temperatures up to at least 200° C. with hydrogen-rich fuel containing high ratios of carbon monoxide such as 3 vol % carbon monoxide or more, compared to the carbon monoxide tolerance of 10-20 ppm level for Nafion®-based polymer electrolyte fuel cells.

An optical device (300) comprises a multilayer structure, formed by wafer bonding, incorporating in sequence a silicon dioxide layer (304), a buried silicide layer (306), a contact layer (308) and a silicon surface layer (310). The surface layer (310) is selectively etched to form an exposed rib (312). An upper surface of the rib (312) is doped to form an elongate electrode (314) therealong. The surface layer (310) is selectively etched to the contact layer (308) in regions remote from the rib (312) to form via channels (316a, 316b) for making electrical connection to the contact layer (308). The rib (312) forms a waveguide along which radiation propagates. When the electrode (314) is biased relative to the contact layer (308), charge carriers are injected into the rib (312) and induce refractive index changes in a central region (324) thereof where most of the radiation propagates along the rib (312). The silicide layer (306) provides an efficient current conduction path for injecting the carriers, thereby providing enhanced device operating bandwidth and reduced power dissipation.

The invention relates to an anti-explosion polyvinyl chloride sheath material for mining cables and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises mixing evenly polyvinyl chloride resin 100 parts by weight, plasticizer 30-80 parts by weight, stuffing 0-60 parts by weight, high-conductivity carbon black 10-40 parts by weight, anti-static agent 0-10 parts by weight, and other auxiliary agent 3-20 parts by weight by a high-speed mixer, extruding at 130-170 DEG C by a single- or double-screw extruder after being melted, water-cooling drawing bar or wind-cooling die-surface hot cutting and granulating, oven-drying, and packaging to obtain the finished product. Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages of excellent durable anti-static property and flame retardant property.

Phononic crystals that have the ability to modify and control the thermal black body phonon distribution and the phonon component of heat transport in a solid. In particular, the thermal conductivity and heat capacity can be modified by altering the phonon density of states in a phononic crystal. The present invention is directed to phononic crystal devices and materials such as radio frequency (RF) tags powered from ambient heat, dielectrics with extremely low thermal conductivity, thermoelectric materials with a higher ratio of electrical-to-thermal conductivity, materials with phononically engineered heat capacity, phononic crystal waveguides that enable accelerated cooling, and a variety of low temperature application devices.

A method of producing metal nanoparticles in a high yield rate and uniform shape and size, which is thus suitable for mass production. In addition, metal nanoparticles are provided that have superior dispersion stability when re-dispersed in various organic solvents, which thus suitable for use as a conductive ink having high conductivity. The method of producing nanoparticles includes mixing a metal precursor with a copper compound to a hydrocarbon based solvent, mixing an amine-based compound to the mixed solution of the metal precursor with copper compound and hydrocarbon based solvent, and mixing a compound including one or more atoms having at least one lone pair, selected from a group consisting of nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorous to the mixed solution of the amine-based compound, metal precursor with a copper compound and hydrocarbon based solvent.

The invention discloses a low-temperature quickly sintered conductive ink for use in ink jet printing, which comprises 1 to 70 weight percent of nano metal particles, 0.1 to 10 weight percent of dispersant, 25 to 98 weight percent of solvent and 0.01 to 36 weight percent of additive, wherein the additive is one or a mixture of two or more of a surfactant, a reducer, a defoamer, an adhesive, a preservative and a humectants. Compared with the prior art, the low-temperature sintered conductive ink can reduce sintering temperature and keep the high conductivity of a wire. For example, at a sintering temperature of 150 DEG C, the conductive ink can make the resistance of a silver wire reach 10 to 7ohm.m. Therefore, the conductive ink can enlarge the range of substrates to which the conductive ink is applied in ink jet printing and reduce energy consumption, and has a great significance for the cost control and environmental protection of manufacturers.

The invention discloses a graphene three-dimensional material as well as a preparation method and an application thereof. The material consists of 10 to 99% of graphene and 1 to 90% of the oxide of manganese, nickel, iron or cobalt. The preparation method comprises the following steps: performing ultrasonic dispersion on graphite oxide to prepare a graphite oxide solution; adding a metal salt solution while stirring or under ultrasonic conditions, and adding a hydrazine hydrate solution; conducting reaction in a drying oven or a hydro-thermal reaction kettle; and then drying to obtain the graphene three-dimensional material. The graphene three-dimensional material is applied to a super capacitor with the capacity of 200 to 800 F/g, or used for making the cathode of a lithium ion battery with the capacity of 300 to 1,400 mAh/g. According to the invention, the preparation process is simple; the prepared graphene three-dimensional macroscopic material has high conductivity and strength; and when being used for the cathode of the lithium ion battery and the super capacitor, the material has high performance.

The invention discloses a method for preparing large-size high-quality graphene with controllable number of layers, wherein graphite powder or flake graphite is mainly adopted as a raw material. The method specifically comprises the steps of intercalating the graphite raw material by virtue of an intercalating agent to initially weaken the intercalation interaction force and obtain different orders of graphite intercalation compounds (GICs); soaking the GICs in an appropriate expander, and then under the case that an auxiliary agent is added or not, enabling the intercalation materials to be quickly reacted with the expander to release a gases to obtain highly expanded wormlike graphene aggregate and further to cause the distances among graphene lamellar layers to be increased; and after certain processing, peeling, and then repeatedly centrifuging and dispersing to obtain a graphene dispersion with different numbers of layers. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the intercalation-expansion-peeling process is involved, raw materials are cheap, the reaction process is simple and easily controlled, and the number of layers of graphene is precisely controlled; the obtained graphene lamellar layers have the advantages of few defects, large size, high conductivity, high yield and the like, the large-scale industrial production is easily implemented, and the problems of high cost, low productivity, poor quality, small size, uncontrollable number of layers and the like in an existing graphene preparation technology are solved.

The invention relates to a CuCrZr alloy with high strength and high conductivity, and a preparation and processing method thereof. The alloy comprises the basic ingredients in percentage by mass: 0.3 percent to 1.4 percent of Cr, 0.02 percent to 0.25 percent of Zr and the balance Cu, wherein the ingredients in the CuCrZr alloy are needed to meet the following requirements: (a) Cr/Zr is less than or equal to 5 and is greater than or equal to 1.9; and (b) Cr+Zr is less than or equal to 1.5 percent and is greater than or equal to 0.4 percent. The preparation and processing method comprises the following steps of: a, compounding, feeding, smelting and casting according to mass percent; b, surface milling; c, hot rolling; d, solution treatment; e, primary cold rolling; f, primary aging; g, secondary cold rolling; and h, secondary aging. The CuCrZr alloy has the tensile strength sigma b being 600-700 MPa, the plasticity elongation rate delta being 4-10 percent, and the conductivity being greater than 80 percent of IACS (International Annealed Copper Standard), can be widely applied to occasions with high strength and high conductivity for preparing resistance welding electrodes, liners of crystallizers of continuous casting machines, integrated circuit lead frame and the like.

The invention relates to a preparation method for preparing nano-scale oxidized zinc powder with high conductivity. The method simultaneously drip mixed salt solution of zincic soluble salt and doping elements such as aluminum, gallium, indium, Yt, scandium, tin, germanium, silicon, as well as precipitating agent into water, to generate coprecipitation to generate doped zinc bloom precursor basic zinc carbonate in condition of controlling temperature and PH value of entire reaction system, and at last, calcining the product in mixed gas atmospheres of hydrogen gas and argon gas, doped superfine zinc bloom conductive powder material can be obtained. The powder material prepared by the invention has small particle-size, uniform grain fineness distribution, and which mean particle diameter is about 10 to 80 nanometer. The electric volume resistivity of the powder can reach 2.5*10^-3 omega.cm, thus its electro conductivity is better than the sample prepared by plasma method and gas-phase method in current market. The preparation method further enhances whiteness degree and conductivity of the oxidized zinc powder, and further reduces the cost.

Nanocellular high surface area materials of a carbon material with high surface area that is controllable and which exhibits high conductivity, controllable structure and a precisely controllable pore size and methods for production and use of these materials are provided.

The invention relates to a method of producing grapheme, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: (1) mixing the raw material of graphite powder with organic solvent according to theconcentration of 1-100 mg/ml to form suspension, and adding grinding balls to the suspension; (2) grinding and dispensing the suspension by a ball-grinding machine for 0.5-6.0h, and taking out slurry;(3) carrying out ultrasonic processing to the slurry for 0.5-6.0h; (4) separating the slurry centrifugally at high speed to obtain the upper solution which is the mixed colloid of monolayer graphemeand multilayer grapheme; and (5) concentrating, separating and replacing the solvent of the mixed colloid of the monolayer grapheme and the multilayer grapheme to obtain grapheme powder and stable grapheme colloid. The invention can consecutively produce the high-conductivity high-thermal conductivity grapheme which is dispersive and stable on a large scale with lost cost by using noncorrosive poisonous flammable and combustible raw materials without discharging waste water and waste gas.