Abstract: A method of forming a conductive feature on a three-dimensional object may include depositing a composition comprising nanoparticles onto a portion of the three-dimensional object, and annealing the composition to form the conductive feature. In another embodiment, a method of forming a conductive feature on a three-dimensional object may include printing a composition comprising nanoparticles to produce a contiguous line over a non-planar portion of the three-dimensional object, and heating the composition to form a conductive feature that has conductivity throughout.

Abstract: The invention relates to thin film single layers, electronic components such as multilayer capacitors which utilize thin film layers, and to their methods of manufacture. Chemical solution deposition and microcontact printing of dielectric and electrode layers are disclosed. High permittivity BaTiO3 multilayer thin film capacitors are prepared on Ni foil substrates by microcontact printing and by chemical solution deposition. Multilayer capacitors with BaTiO3 dielectric layers and LaNiO3 internal electrodes are prepared, enabling dielectric layer thicknesses of 1 ??m or less. Microcontact printing of precursor solutions of the dielectric and electrode layers is used.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are disclosed for forming a transducer. The transducer may include a bottom plate formed from a first sheet of material, a top plate formed from a second sheet of material, and a middle portion. The middle portion includes a mid-upper element formed from a third sheet of material, the mid-upper element having a mid-upper frame, a mid-upper mass, and a plurality of mid-upper attachment members coupling the mid-upper mass to the mid-upper frame. The middle portion also may include a central element formed from a fourth sheet of material, the central element having a central frame and a central mass.

Abstract: Provided are a thin film condenser for high-density packaging, a method for manufacturing the same and a high-density package substrate. The thin film condenser for high-density packaging, includes: a support substrate; a lower electrode formed on the support substrate; a dielectric thin film formed on the lower electrode; and an upper electrode formed on the dielectric thin film. Provided also is a method for manufacturing the same. The high-density package substrate, includes: at least two stacked substrates; thin film condensers embedded in the stacked substrates; an internal connection electrode formed in the stacked substrates and connecting the thin film condensers in series or in parallel; a surface electrode formed on the surface of the outermost substrate among the stacked substrates and connected to the internal connection electrode; and an integrated circuit connected to the surface electrode via a bump.

Abstract: An improved alignment structure for photolithographic pattern alignment is disclosed. A topographical alignment mark in an IC under a low reflectivity layer may be difficult to register. A reflective layer is formed on top of the low reflectivity layer so that the topography of the alignment mark is replicated in the reflective layer, enabling registration of the alignment mark using common photolithographic scanners and steppers. The reflective layer may be one or more layers, and may be metallic, dielectric or both. The reflective layer may be global over the entire IC or may be local to the alignment mark area. The reflective layer may be removed during subsequent processing, possibly with assist from an added etch stop layer, or may remain in the completed IC. The disclosed alignment mark structure is applicable to an IC with a stack of ferroelectric capacitor materials.

Abstract: A capacitive touch sensitive device includes a matrix of pads patterned in a first electrically conductive material on a substrate. Horizontally adjacent pads within each even row of the matrix are electrically coupled to one another via channels to form a plurality of horizontally arranged electrodes. Insulators are positioned over respective channels. Conductive links are formed over respective insulators and are configured to electrically couple vertically adjacent pads between odd rows of the matrix to form a plurality of vertically arranged electrodes. The dimensions of the channels and the conductive links are configured such that an RC time-constant (RCtc) of each of the vertically arranged electrodes substantially matches an RCtc of each of the horizontally arranged electrodes.

Abstract: Methods of increasing an energy density of an energy storage device involve increasing the capacitance of the energy storage device by depositing a material into a porous structure of the energy storage device using an atomic layer deposition process, by performing a procedure designed to increase a distance to which an electrolyte penetrates within channels of the porous structure, or by placing a dielectric material into the porous structure. Another method involves annealing the energy storage device in order to cause an electrically conductive substance to diffuse to a surface of the structure and form an electrically conductive layer thereon. Another method of increasing energy density involves increasing the breakdown voltage and another method involves forming a pseudocapacitor. A method of increasing an achievable power output of an energy storage device involves depositing an electrically conductive material into the porous structure.

Abstract: A conductive fine powder includes flat metal/alloy fine particles. The flat metal/alloy fine particles have a nanocomposite structure in which crystalline or non-crystalline nanoparticles are mixed or formed in a matrix. The flat metal/alloy fine particles have a maximum thickness of 50 nm or less and a maximum diameter at least twice the thickness and contain a high-melting-point metal and a low-melting-point metal.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multi-layer chip capacitor by depositing a dielectric layer and a conductor layer in the form of multi-layer chip, while a width of the conductor layer is narrower than a width of the dielectric layer including adjusting and setting a distance between a single shadow mask installed to a mask set to be rotated and revolved and having a plurality of slits, positioning a dielectric layer deposition source to be perpendicular to the single shadow mask and a conductor layer deposition source to be oblique to the single shadow mask, and forming the dielectric layer and the conductor layer in the vacuum deposition while controlling the mask set to move along the X-, Y-, and Z-axes (the X-axis is the width direction, the Y-axis is the longitudinal direction, and the Z-axis is the height direction).

Abstract: The present invention discloses a smart label to be affixed on or integrated in an object and able to provide an electrical signal indicative of the applied pressure or force and/or the position of the applied pressure or force at a touch point on the object to which the label is affixed. The smart label comprises a layer structure and a detector system, the layer structure comprising of at least a stack of a first, a second and a third layer. The first and third layers comprise a flexible, electrically conductive or semiconductive material and at least two electrodes for connecting the layers to the detector system. The second layer comprises a flexible, deformable and compressible material. The second layer is electrically nonconductive or electrically conductive but less conductive than the first and third layers, wherein the second layer separates the first and third layers.

Abstract: As an electrode for a power storage device, an electrode including a current collector, a first active material layer over the current collector, and a second active material layer that is over the first active material layer and includes a particle containing niobium oxide and a granular active material is used, whereby the charge-discharge cycle characteristics and rate characteristics of the power storage device can be improved. Moreover, contact between the granular active material and the particle containing niobium oxide makes the granular active material physically fixed; accordingly, deterioration due to expansion and contraction of the active material which occur along with charge and discharge of the power storage device, such as powdering of the active material or its separation from the current collector, can be suppressed.

Abstract: A method for producing a capacitor including an array of nanocapacitors, in which the following operations are performed using a mold having a sealed surface, as a lower surface, and a top surface through which a network of pores extend: (a) filling the pores of the mold and covering a top surface of the mold with an electrically conductive material, to form a structure including an array of nanoscale objects connected by a single substrate; (b) removing the mold; (c) depositing, on an outline of the structure obtained at the end of (b), at least one bilayer including a first layer of an electrically insulating material and a second layer of an electrically conductive material; and then (d) locally removing the at least one bilayer deposited in (c) from the substrate to form the electrical contact.

Abstract: A method is provided for making a high permittivity dielectric material for use in capacitors. Several high permittivity materials in an organic nonconductive media with enhanced properties and methods for making the same are disclosed. A general method for the formation of thin films of some particular dielectric material is disclosed, wherein organic polymers are utilized to produce low conductivity dielectric coatings. Additionally, a method whereby the formation of certain transition metal salts as salt or oxide matrices is demonstrated at low temperatures utilizing mild reducing agents. Further, a circuit structure and associated method of operation for the recovery and regeneration of the leakage current from the long-term storage capacitors is provided in order to enhance the manufacturing yield and utility performance of such devices.

Abstract: A capacitive transducer (1) comprises a polymer film (2) having a first surface and a second surface, a first electrically conductive layer (3) arranged on the first surface of the polymer film (2), and a second electrically conductive layer (3) arranged on the second surface of the polymer film (2). The polymer film (2) is at least partly made from a material having a molecular weight which is at least 21,000 g/mol. The inventors have surprisingly found that silicone polymer materials with high molecular weights, such as liquid silicone rubbers (LSR) or high temperature vulcanizing (HTV) elastomers, have high electrical breakdown strengths, even though technical data sheets from manufacturers state almost identical electrical breakdown strengths similar to that of RTV-2 elastomers. Using such materials in capacitive transducers allows high electrical fields to be applied to transducers without risking electrical breakdown, thereby increasing performance of transducers.

Abstract: The microcomponent, for example a microbattery, comprising a stack with at least two superposed layers on a substrate, is made using a single steel mask able to expand under the effect of temperature. The mask comprises at least one off-centered opening. The mask being at a first temperature, a first layer is deposited through the opening of the mask. The mask being at a second temperature, higher than the first temperature, a second layer is deposited through the opening of the mask. Finally, the mask being at a third temperature, higher than the second temperature, a third layer is deposited through the opening of the mask.

Abstract: A method of forming a material over a substrate includes performing at least one iteration of the following temporally separated ALD-type sequence. First, an outermost surface of a substrate is contacted with a first precursor to chemisorb a first species onto the outermost surface from the first precursor. Second, the outermost surface is contacted with a second precursor to chemisorb a second species different from the first species onto the outermost surface from the second precursor. The first and second precursors include ligands and different central atoms. At least one of the first and second precursors includes at least two different composition ligands. The two different composition ligands are polyatomic or a lone halogen. Third, the chemisorbed first species and the chemisorbed second species are contacted with a reactant which reacts with the first species and with the second species to form a reaction product new outermost surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an electrode, a method for fabricating the same, and an electrochemical capacitor including the same, the electrode including an electrode current collector; a plurality of first active material layers made of a complex of graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNT) above the electrode current collector; and a plurality of second active material layers made of carbon nanofibers (CNF), each of the second active material layers being interposed between the first active material layers. According to the present invention, an electrochemical device having high capacitance and output can be provided by using materials such as graphene, carbon nanotubes (CNT), and carbon nanofibers (CNF), which have excellent specific surface area and electric conductivity, as an electrode active material, and thereby to fabricate an electrode having a multilayer structure.

Abstract: A dielectric thin film element having a high humidity resistance is provided. A dielectric thin film element includes a capacitance section having a dielectric layer and a pair of electrode layers formed on the respective upper and lower surfaces of the dielectric layer 22. Furthermore, a protection layer is provided on the capacitance section, a pair of interconnect layers are drawn out to an upper surface of the protection layer, and external electrodes are formed to be electrically connected to the interconnect layers. Further, first surface metal layers cover a portion of the interconnect layers that extends along the inner surface of the openings and second surface metal layers are formed at end of the first surface metal layers.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for a variable capacitance apparatus. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a plurality of electromechanical systems varactors connected in parallel. Each of the plurality of electromechanical systems varactors includes a first, a second, and a third metal layer. The first metal layer includes a first bias electrode. The second metal layer is spaced apart from the first metal layer to define a first air gap, and includes a first radio frequency electrode. A third metal layer is spaced apart from the second metal layer to define a second air gap, and includes a second radio frequency electrode and a second bias electrode. The second bias electrode of each of the plurality of electromechanical systems varactors has a different projected area perpendicular to a surface of the second metal layer and onto the surface of the second metal layer.

Abstract: A method of fabrication of high-k paraelectric metal oxide films at low temperatures utilizing ordered mesoporous metal oxide thin films synthesized by organic templating methodology. The process consisting of (a) chemical solution deposition of periodic ordered mesoporous structures containing high-k metal oxide films, (b) removal of organic template additives, (c) infiltration of the pores with an appropriate second phase, and (d) low temperature thermal and/or annealing of infiltrated films.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a ceramic electronic component capable of preventing degradation of the self alignment property and product characteristics due to absorption of flux into pores of a ceramic element assembly during soldering in mounting and a ceramic electronic component. In the method, a ceramic element assembly is subjected to an oil-repellent treatment by using an oil-repellent agent containing a polyfluoropolyether compound as a primary component and hydrofluoroether as a solvent, so as to avoid absorption of the flux by the ceramic element assembly.

Abstract: A microelectronic assembly, a surface mount component and a method of providing the surface mount component. The assembly comprises: a substrate having bonding pads disposed on a mounting surface thereof, the bonding pads including a ferromagnetic material therein; solidified solder disposed on the bonding pads; and a surface mount component bonded to the substrate by way of the solidified solder and including a magnetic layer disposed on a substrate side thereof, the magnetic layer being adapted to cooperate with the ferromagnetic material in the bonding pads to establish a magnetic force of a sufficient magnitude to hold the surface mount component on the substrate before and during soldering.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a solid electrolytic capacitor, including the steps of: forming a capacitor element including an anode body having a dielectric coating film on a surface thereof; impregnating the capacitor element with a polymerization liquid containing a precursor monomer of a conductive polymer and an oxidant; impregnating the capacitor element impregnated with the polymerization liquid with a silane compound or a silane compound containing solution; and forming a conductive polymer layer by polymerizing the precursor monomer after impregnating the capacitor element with the silane compound or the silane compound containing solution.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coating formulation useful in forming a conductive coating film on a surface of a collector for constructing an electrode plate for an electricity storage device. The coating formulation contains (A) a polymeric acid, (B) a vinyl carboxylate copolymer represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of H, Na, organic groups derived from vinyl carboxylate monomers, and cations capable of forming electrolytes for the electricity storage device, R2 to R4 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, Na, C1-C6 alkyl groups, and cations capable of forming electrolytes for the electricity storage device, and a ratio (m/n) of m to n is from 0.0001 to 1, (C) a conductive material, and (D) a polar solvent.

Abstract: There is provided an electronic component including a ceramic sintered body having a plurality of internal electrodes formed therein, and external electrodes formed on an outer surface of the ceramic sintered body. Each of the external electrodes includes a copper (Cu) electrode layer electrically connected to the internal electrodes, a copper (Cu)-tin (Sn) alloy layer formed on an outer surface of the electrode layer, and a tin (Sn) plating layer formed on an outer surface of the alloy layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) stack is described. The method includes forming a temporary stack by depositing a bottom electrode comprising at least one metal layer; depositing a dielectric comprising at least one layer of a dielectric material having a first dielectric constant value; and depositing a top electrode comprising at least one metal layer. The step of depositing the bottom and/or top electrode includes depositing a non-conductive metal oxide layer directly in contact with the dielectric; and after the step of depositing the bottom and/or top electrode's non-conductive metal oxide layer and the dielectric, subjecting the temporary stack to a stimulus, which transforms the non-conductive metal oxide into a thermodynamically stable oxide having conductive properties or into a metal, and the dielectric material into a crystalline form having a second dielectric constant value higher than the first dielectric constant value, thereby creating the final MIM stack.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode pattern of a touch panel and a forming method of the electrode pattern of a touch panel. The electrode pattern of a touch panel according to the present invention includes a plurality of electrode pattern cells which are arranged on a substrate in a space, a dielectric layer formed on the electrode pattern cell, and a bridge electrode which is formed on the dielectric layer by using conductive material of black color and connects the electrode pattern cells.

Abstract: There are provided a conductive paste for an external electrode, a multilayer ceramic electronic component using the same, and a method of manufacturing the same. More particularly, there are provided a conductive paste for an external electrode including: a conductive metal powder; and a spherical glass frit having an average particle size of 0.05 to 3.0 ?m, a multilayer ceramic electronic component using the same, and a method of manufacturing the same. According to the present invention, a spherical glass frit having fine particles may be applied at the time of preparing the conductive paste for an external electrode, thereby realizing external electrodes having excellent compactness at a low temperature and suppressing the occurrence of cracks, and thus, a multilayer ceramic electronic component having excellent reliability can be implemented.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a circuit board, the method includes: forming a capacitive device and a short-circuit section with use of a capacitive device material including a dielectric film and a conductive film in this order on metallic foil, the capacitive device including a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer with the dielectric film interposed therebetween, and the short-circuit section short-circuiting the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; forming an upper-layer wiring above the capacitive device and the short-circuit section; and removing or cutting the short-circuit section after the forming of the upper-layer wiring.

Abstract: An electrode for an electric storage device includes at least an active material selected from the group consisting of a carbon nanotube, activated carbon, hard carbon, graphite, graphene and a carbon nanohorn; an ionic liquid; and a three-dimensional network metal porous body.

Abstract: A capacitive humidity sensor includes a first electrode, a humidity sensitive dielectric layer, and a second electrode. The humidity sensitive dielectric layer is between the first and the second electrodes. The humidity sensitive dielectric layer is etched at selected regions to form hollow regions between the first and second electrodes.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hybrid porous material including a porous material including a microporous polymer film or a non-woven fabric, wherein the porous material has an upper surface and a lower surface; and a continuous inorganic coating covering the upper surface, the lower surface, and surfaces of pores within the porous material. The present disclosure also provides a manufacturing method for the hybrid porous material and an energy storage device including the same.

Abstract: A capacitor forming method includes forming an electrically conductive support material over a substrate, forming an opening through at least the support material to the substrate, and, after forming the opening, forming a capacitor structure contacting the substrate and the support material in the opening. The support material contains at least 25 at % carbon. Another capacitor forming method includes forming a support material over a substrate, forming an opening through at least the support material to the substrate, and, after forming the opening, forming a capacitor structure contacting the substrate and the support material in the opening. The support material contains at least 20 at % carbon. The support material has a thickness and the opening has an aspect ratio 20:1 or greater within the thickness of the support material.

Abstract: There are provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component comprising: a ceramic main body including a dielectric layer and having first and second main faces, third and fourth side faces opposed in a length direction, and fifth and sixth faces opposed in a width direction; first and second internal electrodes; and one or more first external electrodes formed on the fifth face and one or more second external electrodes formed on the sixth face, wherein the first and second external electrodes have an average thickness ranging from 3 ?m to 30 ?m, and when at least one of the first and second external electrodes is divided into three equal parts in a thickness direction, an area of glass in central area portions thereof is 35% to 80% of the total areas of the central area portions.

Abstract: This disclosure provides implementations of electromechanical systems combined resonator and passive circuit component structures, devices, apparatus, systems, and related processes. In one aspect, the device includes a piezoelectric resonator structure formed over an insulating substrate. A portion of the piezoelectric resonator structure is spaced apart from the substrate by a first gap. A passive circuit component structure such as an inductor or a capacitor is formed over the insulating substrate. A portion of the passive circuit component structure is spaced apart from the substrate by a second gap. The first gap and the second gap are defined by removal of a sacrificial (SAC) layer.

Abstract: A method for forming a ruthenium oxide film includes: providing a substrate in a processing chamber; supplying a ruthenium compound having a structure of the following formula (1) in which two ?-diketons and two groups selected among olefin, amine, nitril, and carbonyl are coordinate-bonded to Ru in a vapor state onto the substrate; supplying oxygen gas onto the substrate; and forming a ruthenium oxide film on the substrate by reaction between the ruthenium compound gas and the oxygen gas. where R1 and R2 indicate alkyl groups having a total carbon number of about 2 to 5, and R3 indicates a group selected among an olefin group, an amine group, a nitril group and a carbonyl group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sensor element (1), which comprises a sensor section (2) comprising a sensor unit (3) configured to measure a physiological variable or any other signal in a living body and to generate a sensor signal in response to said variable or other signal, a bond section (5) comprising contact members configured to electrically connect at least one signal transmitting microcable, wherein the bond section is coated with an electrically insulating material (18) and the sensor section is left uncoated. The sensor element may further comprise an intermediate section between said sensor section and said bond section, including electric connection lines (19) configured to connect the contact members to the sensor unit, which intermediate section is also coated with said electrically insulating material. The invention further relates to a sensor wire and a method of producing a sensor element.

Abstract: A ceramic body includes an inner electrode disposed inside the ceramic body and in which an end portion of the inner electrode extends to a surface of the ceramic body. An electrode layer is formed on the surface of the ceramic body so as to cover the end portion of the inner electrode, the electrode layer including a resin, a first metal filler that contains a first metal component, and a second metal filler that contains a second metal component having a higher melting point than the first metal component. A step of heating the electrode layer is performed to form an electrode including a metal layer that is located on the surface of the ceramic body and that includes the first and second metal components and a metal contained in the inner electrode.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body and an outer electrode. The outer electrode is disposed on the ceramic body. The outer electrode includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a resin, a first metal component, and a second metal component having a higher melting point than the first metal component. The second conductive layer is disposed on the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is includes a plating film. An alloy particle containing the first metal component and the second metal component protrudes to the second conductive layer side from a surface of the first conductive layer.

Abstract: A method for forming a Metal-Insulator-Metal Capacitor (MIMCAP) structure and the MIMCAP structure thereof are described. An example electronic device includes a first electrode, and a layer of a dielectric material including titanium oxide and a first dopant ion. The layer of the dielectric material is formed on the first electrode. The first dopant ion has a size mismatch of 10% or lower compared to the Ti4+ ion and the dielectric material has a rutile tetragonal crystalline structure at temperatures below 650° C. The example electronic device further includes a second electrode, formed upon the dielectric material layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to capacitive sensors for measuring humidity and moisture and to an improved process for making the same. The fabrication process for a capacitive sensor having a multi-layer electrodes for measuring humidity and moisture comprising disposing the multi-layer interdigitated electrodes in a multi-layer polyimides; providing a plurality of trenches on the surface of the electrode by lift off process; and covering the sensor with photosensitive negative polyimide.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a multilayer ceramic capacitor and a method for manufacturing the same. The multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a capacitor main body having dielectric layers and inner electrodes laminated therein; external electrodes and plating layers formed on a surface of the capacitor main body; and electroless plating layers formed between the external electrodes and the plating layers. According to the examples of the present invention, the electroless plating layer is formed before the plating layer is formed on the external electrode, thereby solving non-plating problems when the plating layer made of nickel or the like is formed on the external electrode. Therefore, soldering defects due to nickel non-plating or the like can be solved at the time of mounting, and thus, a multilayer ceramic capacitor having high reliability can be provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to thin film single layers, electronic components such as multilayer capacitors which utilize thin film layers, and to their methods of manufacture. Chemical solution deposition and microcontact printing of dielectric and electrode layers are disclosed. High permittivity BaTiO3 multilayer thin film capacitors are prepared on Ni foil substrates by microcontact printing and by chemical solution deposition. Multilayer capacitors with BaTiO3 dielectric layers and LaNiO3 internal electrodes are prepared, enabling dielectric layer thicknesses of 1 ?m or less. Microcontact printing of precursor solutions of the dielectric and electrode layers is used.

Abstract: Provided is a preparation method of a metal oxide doped monolith carbon aerogel for a high capacitance capacitor, the including: preparing a monolith carbon aerogel by performing a thermal decomposition of a moist gel dried in condition of a atmospheric pressure and a room temperature in a nitrogen atmosphere; impregnating the monolith carbon aerogel into alcohol where a metal precursor is dissolved; and calcinating the monolith carbon aerogel where the metal precursor is impregnated in an atmospheric atmosphere. By impregnating the metal oxide into the monolith carbon aerogel, a limit of capacitance may be enhanced using a pseudo capacitance effect by an interfacial oxidation reduction reaction.

Abstract: A method of dispersing a metal or metal oxide within a CNT or CNT array, comprising exposing the CNT or CNT array to a solution containing a metal compound in a non-aqueous liquid; and removing the non-aqueous liquid from the CNT or CNT array. Nanoparticles were homogenously deposited within millimeter-long carbon nanotube array (CNTA). After modified with nanoparticles, CNTA changes from hydrophobic to hydrophilic. The hydrophilic composite electrodes present ideal capacitive behavior with high reversibility. The novel, nano-architectured composite demonstrates strong promise for high-performance thick and compact electrochemical supercapacitors.

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to hybrid capacitors specifically to PbO2/Activated Carbon hybrid capacitors. The hybrid super capacitor of the present disclosure is simple to assemble, bereft of impurities and can be fast charged/discharged with high faradiac-efficiency.

Abstract: A metal current collector including a metal substrate having grooves formed along a triple junction line of a surface thereof and a conductive layer formed on the metal substrate, a method for preparing the same, and electrochemical capacitors with same. A metal current collector including a metal substrate having grooves formed along a triple junction line of a surface thereof and a conductive layer formed on the metal substrate has a large surface area and low electrical resistance. This metal current collector can be effectively used in electrochemical capacitors with high capacity and high output characteristics by improving contact characteristics with an active material layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a capacitive element sensor and to a method for manufacturing same. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a change in total capacitance brought about by the electrical charge of biomolecules attached to an electrode and to a sensor for measuring the change.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a metal current collector including a metal substrate having grooves on a surface thereof, a carbon buffer layer formed on the metal substrate, and a conductive layer formed on the carbon buffer layer, a method for preparing the same, and electrochemical capacitors comprising the same. According to the present invention, a metal current collector including a metal substrate having grooves on a surface thereof, a carbon buffer layer formed on the metal substrate, and a conductive layer formed on the carbon buffer layer has a large surface area and low electrical resistance. This metal current collector can be effectively used in electrochemical capacitors with high capacity and high output characteristics by improving contact characteristics with an active material layer.

Abstract: A capacitor forming method includes forming an electrically conductive support material over a substrate, forming an opening through at least the support material to the substrate, and, after forming the opening, forming a capacitor structure contacting the substrate and the support material in the opening. The support material contains at least 25 at % carbon. Another capacitor forming method includes forming a support material over a substrate, forming an opening through at least the support material to the substrate, and, after forming the opening, forming a capacitor structure contacting the substrate and the support material in the opening. The support material contains at least 20 at % carbon. The support material has a thickness and the opening has an aspect ratio 20:1 or greater within the thickness of the support material.