244 results about "Pt electrode" patented technology

A thin film based nanoporous alumina template has been developed which allows the in situ removal of an electrically insulating alumina barrier layer at the pore bases. This barrier free nanoporous system has great utility for electrodeposition of a wide variety of nanowire materials. An exemplary multilayer thin film precursor is provided comprising Al (anodization layer), Ti (diffusion barrier) and Pt (active electrode) on a Si substrate. Aluminum anodization in sulfuric acid with a subsequent applied voltage ramping program produces a Pt electrode at the base of the nanopores without the additional steps of alumina removal, barrier layer dissolution, and metal deposition onto the pore bottoms.

The invention discloses a graphene composite porous counter electrode, a preparation method and application thereof. The composite porous counter electrode is a mixture of grapheme and inorganic nanometer particles coated on a conductive substrate. The preparation method concretely comprises the following steps of: mixing the grapheme prepared through chemical reduction with the inorganic nanometer particles; adding a small amount of organic binder; coating the organic binder on a substrate material, such as metal, conductive glass or conductive plastic and the like; and obtaining the graphene composite porous counter electrode through thermal treatment. The porosity of the composite counter electrode ensures that the composite counter electrode and a liquid electrolyte have larger effective contact area; and the composite counter electrode has the photoelectric conversion efficiency equivalent to a magnetron sputtering Pt electrode when being applied to a dye sensitized solar cell. The composite electrode has the advantages of low cost, favorable stability and mechanical property and the like and has important significant on the wide application of the dye sensitized solar cell.

The present invention relates to a lithium tantalate film infrared detector and the preparing method thereof. The invention comprises the following components: an infrared filtering window, a resonance chopped wave modulator, a focusing lens, a pyroelectric lithium tantalate film infrared measuring probe, a heat sink cavity, a preamplifier, a low-pass filter, an electric power and signal output interface, a casing and an environment temperature detecting filter. The method for preparing the detector comprises the following steps: selecting a substrate, growing a SiO2 layer on the front and back surface, depositing Si3N4 layer on the front surface in sequence, sputtering a Ti layer, sputtering a photoetching Pt electrode layer, producing a lithium tantalate film layer, depositing a phototeching Al electrode layer, growing a photoetching SiNX antireflection layer and sputtering a black layer to complete the double unit structure infrared probe. The focusing lens is coated with an anti-reflection film. The infrared window is pasted with a narrowband filtering film. The preamplifier is built with a JFET tube or operational amplifier. The low-pass filter is built with an operational amplifier. The resonance chopped wave modulator is driven by piezoelectricity or electromagnet, and the resonance frequency is 1Hz-1000Hz.

The invention discloses a solvothermal preparation method of an in-situ molybdenum disulfide electrode. The preparation method comprises the following steps: dissolving molybdenum-containing salts (sodium molybdate, etc.) into an alcohol solution containing a sulfur source (thiourea, etc.), adding a substrate material, then filling the mixture into a hydrothermal kettle, carrying out solvothermal reactions for 6 to 24 hours at a temperature of 180 to 230 DEG C; taking out the substrate, and cleaning and drying the substrate. If people want to improve the crystallization property of molybdenum disulfide, the substrate can be annealed in an atmosphere of N2 for one hour at a temperature of 500 DEG C. The prepared in-situ molybdenum disulfide electrode has the advantages of high transparency and uniformity, and strong adhesion force on substrate. The dye-sensitized solar cell prepared from the provided in-situ molybdenum disulfide electrode has a higher photoelectric conversion efficiency, compared with the cells prepared from a conventional pyrolytic Pt electrode, and the result shows that the prepared molybdenum disulfide electrode has an extremely good electro-catalytic activity.

The invention relates to an electrolyte of dye-sensitized solar cells, disclosing a quasi solid electrolyte and a preparation method thereof; the method in the invention comprises the following steps: (1) blending polymeric ionic liquid, nonpolymeric ionic liquid, ionic liquid cross linking agent and initiating agent according to the mass ratio of 15-60:20-80:2-10:1-5, and obtaining the polymer gel through random copolymerization at the temperature of 20-80 DEG C; and (2) immersing the polymer gel into iodic solution or iodic vapor for adsorption of iodic simple substance to obtain the electrolyte. In the invention, the well-prepared ionic liquid monomer/ionic liquid mixture is dipped between a light anode and a Pt electrode and quasi solid polymer gel is formed through in situ polymerization; the polymer gel is dipped into iodic solution or iodic vapor for the adsorption of iodic simple substance to prepare the quasi solid full-ionic liquid electrolyte which is used in solar cells, and the dye-sensitized solar cells are prepared simultaneously. The electrolyte prepared by the method has strong electrolytic adhesive ability and easy encapsulation, thus simplifying battery assembly program.

The invention relates to a grapheme-modified platinum electrode. The grapheme-modified platinum electrode is formed by oxidizing a platinum electrode on a silicon chip to generate a carbon dioxide layer for serving as a substrate, evaporating a metal platinum electrode on the carbon dioxide substrate and growing grapheme on the platinum electrode. A stripping voltammetry method is adopted, the grapheme-modified platinum electrode manufactured with an MEMS (Micro-electromechanical System) is taken as a working electrode, an Ag/AgCl electrode is taken as a reference ratio electrode, a platinum wire electrode is taken as a counter electrode, parameter selection of post-treatment, enriching time, potential setting, stripping voltammetry are performed, the heavy metal extreme value is 0.05 mg/L according to detection, and a provided G/Pt electrode has remarkably higher detection sensitivity than a naked Pt electrode.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a cobalt-nickel sulfide counter electrode. The steps include: first step, hydrothermally reacting cobalt salt, nickel salt and excess sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate at 120-200°C to generate hydrogen Oxycobalt nickel or basic cobalt nickel carbonate; the second step, mix the hydroxide cobalt nickel or basic cobalt nickel carbonate with a certain concentration of sulfur source aqueous solution, and heat it at 140-230 ° C; the third step is to generate the sulfur Cobalt nickel is made into a slurry and coated on a conductive substrate, and dried at room temperature. The electrode prepared by the invention does not need to be sintered under vacuum or protective atmosphere, and the preparation process is simple; the prepared cobalt-nickel sulfide counter electrode has high mechanical strength and no shedding phenomenon; Better electrocatalytic activity; Dye-sensitized solar cells assembled with cobalt-nickel sulfide electrodes obtained higher photoelectric conversion efficiency than dye-sensitized solar cells assembled with pyrolyzed Pt electrodes.

The invention discloses a solar cell gel electrolyte and a preparation method and application thereof. In the invention, the gel electrolyte is prepared by adding novel dendritic ionic liquid into liquid electrolyte of non-polymeric ionic liquid, additive and iodine monomer, hermetically stirring the mixture for 1 to 20 hours at the temperature of between 50 and 140 DEG C and uniformly dissolving the novel dendritic ionic liquid. The gel electrolyte is dropwise added or injected into the space between a photoanode dye titanium dioxide membrane and a Pt electrode while the gel electrolyte is hot; the gel electrolyte is further heated and subjected to evacuation, so that the gel electrolyte is completely impregnated into the titanium dioxide membrane serving as a porous membrane; and the components are packaged to prepare a quasi-solid fully ionic liquid gel solar cell. The gel electrolyte prepared in the invention does not comprise conventional toxic solvents and thus has the advantages of ready availability, easy package and high stability and high efficiency of the cell. The cell has a few assembly processes and low cost. When a xenon lamp is utilized to simulate the sunshine at the room temperature environment, the measured maximum photoelectric conversion efficiency of the cell is 6.0 percent under the condition that the light intensity is 100mW/cm<2>.

A semiconductor memory device and method of fabricating the same, which improves adhesion of the lower electrode of a ferroelectric planar capacitor, and prevents inter-diffusion between the Pt electrode of the capacitor and adhesion layer placed under the Pt electrode. The semiconductor memory device includes an insulating layer formed on a substrate, a paraelectric layer formed on the insulating layer, and a conductive layer formed on the paraelectric layer.

Belonging to the technical field of micro-nano electronic devices, the invention specifically relates to a silicon-based coplanar low-power micro-gas sensor chip and its application in micro-gas sensor preparation, wherein, the sensor chip is founded on a silicon substrate, and a heating electrode and a signal electrode coexist on one medium plane. And the prepared sensor of the above structure can realize operation at a low temperature. The micro-gas sensor chip is prepared by the steps of: preparing an SiO2 insulating layer on an Si substrate in (100) crystal orientation with a routine thermal oxidation method; employing a semiconductor plane technology to sputter a Ti adhesion layer and a Pt electrode layer (the heating electrode and the signal electrode) in order on the SiO2 insulating layer; then conducting photoetching and scribing so as to obtain a coplanar micro-gas sensor chip. The gas sensor chip prepared in the invention has low power consumption and is far superior to cantilever beam micro-sensors. The micro-gas sensor chip provided in the invention has the advantages of simple technology, low cost, low power consumption and easy integration.

A method to measure redox potentials and concentrations of redox active substances in an aqueous solution is described. The method is based on measurements of transmembrane electric potential through an electroconductive polymer membrane, for example, through a d,l-camphor sulfonic acid (CSA) doped polyaniline (PANI) membrane. Transmembrane electric potential demonstrates good Nernstian response as a function of redox potential in solutions,of the redox couples of Fe²⁺/Fe³⁺ and Fe(CN)₆⁴⁻/Fe(CN)₆³⁻. The membrane gives good response to redox active substances such as L-Ascorbic acid and redox active dyes Neutral red, Nile blue and N-phenylanthranilic acid that do not induce satisfactory response on Pt electrode. The lower detection limits can be as low as 0.2 mM. In the absence of redox processes it is also possible to measure Cl⁻ concentration at least from 0.05 mM to 100 mM.

It is disclosed a dielectric element comprising a lower electrode, a dielectric layer, and an upper electrode which are provided on a substrate, in which at least one of the electrodes is a Pt layer, a Ru layer is used as a base layer for the Pt layer. In the fabrication of the dielectric element, the Pt layer is formed by electroplating, a photoresist pattern is used as a plating mask, and an Ru layer is formed as a seed layer. The present invention makes it possible to provide a dielectric element using Pt as an electrode material, that is capable of easily forming a Pt electrode having excellent electrical characteristics without generating voids or seams, that is capable of forming a fine pattern, and that does not occur contamination in a processing chamber, and a method for fabricating a dielectric element of having the characteristics mentioned above.

Non-platinum (Pt) electrode catalysts for fuel cells, methods of manufacturing the same, and fuel cells including the non-Pt electrode catalysts. Each of the non-Pt electrode catalysts for fuel cells includes at least palladium (Pd) and iridium (Ir), and further includes a metal, oxide of the metal, or mixture thereof for compensating for the activity of Pd and Ir.

A multi-layer electrode (246) and method of fabrication thereof in which a conductive region (244) is separated from a barrier layer (222) by a first conductive liner (240) and a second conductive liner (242). First conductive layer (240) comprises Pt, and second conductive liner (242) comprises a thin layer of conductive oxide. The multi-layer electrode (246) prevents oxygen diffusion through the top conductive region (244) and reduces material variation during electrode patterning.

The invention relates to a slice type oxygen sensor used for air-fuel delivery ratio control of a vehicle engine and a manufacture method thereof. The manufacture method comprises the following steps: slurry made of yttrium stabilization zirconia powder forms a slice blank through a casting technology; Pt electrodes which have certain gaps are respectively manufactured in silk screens at both sides of the slice blank; a solid state oxygen partial pressure reference slice is prepared on the yttrium stabilization zirconia slice blank through a secondary casting technology; an RuO material heater is printed in a silk screen in the middle of a secondary casting layer, and the thickness of the layer is of 6 to 7 times of a yttrium stabilization zirconia layer; a porous protective layer is formed at the side of an outer electrode on the yttrium stabilization zirconia slice blank in a curtain coating mode; finally, a prefabricated substrate blank is punched into a strip shape according to a required size, an electrode connecting hole is manufactured, and vacuum sintering is carried out in the program temperature rising process with the temperature of as high as 1600 DEG C to manufacture a sensor chip. The method fully utilizes the curtain coating technology of ceramic slice type materials and the silk screen printing technology of slurry electrodes, and has the advantages of less production technology links, high product consistency, high yield and low cost.

The invention relates to a high-temperature thin film strain meter of a composite protection layer and a preparation method thereof. The strain meter comprises a high-temperature alloy component substrate, an alloy transition layer, an aluminum oxide insulating layer, an aluminum oxide protection layer, an aluminum intermediate layer, a PdCr strain layer and a Pt electrode. the strain meter takesa high-temperature alloy component as a substrate, a transition layer alloy is firstly subjected to magnetron sputtering on the substrate and is subjected to high-temperature oxidation to generate a thin-layer aluminum oxide film, the aluminum oxide insulating film is deposited by double ion beam sputtering, and a PdCr strain layer is subjected to radio frequency magnetron sputtering on the insulating film, and the ion beams sputter AL intermediate layer and an AL2O3 protective layer. The strain meter is suitable for the real-time measurement of the strain of a component in the high-temperature working process, a universal MEMS patterning process is adopted, and the PDCR is sputtered to serve as a strain layer, the ion beams sputter to prepare Al and Al2O3 to obtain a composite protectionlayer by heat treatment, so that the oxidation of the PdCr thin film is prevented, and the oxidation resistance and the stability of the strain meter are improved.

The present invention discloses one kind of micro liquid drop driver based on electric wetting on medium layer and belongs to the field of micro complete analysis system and micro electromechanical system. On monocrystal silicon, there are one lower plate substrate layer of hot oxide SiO2, one Ti/Pt electrode array, one thin film medium layer, one hydrophobic layer of fluorocarbon polymer, and upper plate glass sheet with hydrophobic layer and ITO and supported with some support, successively. The micro liquid drop driver has low micro liquid drop driving voltage, simple making process and low cost, and other liquid drop operation may be further integrated on the same chip.

A thin-film capacitor 10 has an MIM structure in which a lower electrode 14, a dielectric layer 16, and an upper electrode 18 are formed in order on a substrate 12. Of the upper and lower electrodes 18 and 14, at least the upper electrode 18 is formed of a laminated electrode in which a nitride and a metal are laminated. The nitride preferably contains a high-melting point metal, such as Ta or Ti. In addition, the metal laminated along with the nitride is preferably the same as the metal contained in the nitride. Yet additionally, the nitride may contain Si. Thus, by using the laminated electrode containing the nitride in at least the upper electrode 18, identical I-V characteristics can be obtained and reliability is improved without the need for an annealing treatment for characteristic recovery necessary when a Pt electrode is used. Still additionally, adhesion between the dielectric layer 16 and the upper electrode 18 is improved, and therefore, delamination does not occur.

The invention relates to measuring method of the oxyanion hyphen electron mixed conductor material ionic conductivity. The mixed conductor is a ceramic material which has oxyanion and electron conduction power. The characteristics of measuring method is that it calculates and gets the ionic conductivity resulting the changes of resistance with the change of needed detection mixed conductor sample geometry after the electron block; because the tangent condition has not any changed before and after of mixed conductor block electrode, not considering the interfacial resistance, block electrode resistance and Pt electrode resistance, avoiding the error from this. The calculating formula of mixed conductor ionic conductivity is sigma i= (L1-L2)/[S*(R-R')].The measuring method of this invention is simply and convenience, the structure of measuring battery is simplify, reducing the factors of importing error.

The invention discloses a method for determining the concentration of phosphite by cyclic voltammetry, which comprises the steps of: establishing a working curve by determining the quantitative proportional relation between the oxide peak current intensity of phosphite on a bare Pt electrode and the concentration of phosphite and fitting the working curve as a linear formula, and substituting theoxide peak value of a sample to be detected in the formula to obtain the concentration of phosphite. The method of the invention is accurate in detection results, has the advantages of being simple in experimental conditions, simple and convenient in operation and saving time compared with the traditional methods for determining the concentration of phosphite, such as an oxidation reduction titration method, a paper chromatography, a thin-layer chromatography and an ion exchange chromatography, and has tremendous popularization and application prospect in paint, electroplating and other fields.

The present invention is aniline-m-aminophenol copolymer as one kind of conductive polymer and its synthesis. Inside an electrolytic bath with Pt electrode or C electrode, aniline, m-aminophenol and sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid are electrolyzed to obtain the conductive polymer, aniline-m-aminophenol copolymer, which is washed with dilute hydrochloric acid solution and dried. The conductive polymer has excellent characteristic similar to that of polyaniline, and capacity of maintaining high chemical activity in strong acid solution and pH 1.0-11.0 sodium sulfate solution. When the pH value of the copolymer raises from 5.0 to 11.0, it has chemical activity lowered to 58.3 %. The copolymer has wide application potential range,(-0.2 to 0.80 Vú¼vs.SCE), conductivity of 0.8-1.4S/cm, and lower dependence on pH value.