Activated carbon based electrodes in commercial supercapacitors and their performance

International Review of Electrical Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 272-281

  Obreja, Vasile V N ^a   Dinescu, Adrian ^a   Obreja, Alexandru C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MICROTECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Specific capacitance; Specific stored energy; Supercapacitor cell; Ultracapacitor

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952319077     PISSN: 18276660     EISSN: 25332244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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