Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers for High Breakdown Strength Polymer Film Capacitors

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 7966-7976

  Samant, Saumil P ^a   Grabowski, Christopher A ^b   Kisslinger, Kim ^c   Yager, Kevin G ^c   Yuan, Guangcui ^d   Satija, Sushil K ^d   Durstock, Michael F ^b   Raghavan, Dharmaraj ^e   Karim, Alamgir ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

barrier effect; block copolymer; breakdown strength; capacitor; cold zone annealing soft shear; dielectric; directed self assembly; lamellae

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CAPACITORS; CHARGING (BATTERIES); COBALT; DIELECTRIC FILMS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ENERGY STORAGE; FILMS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LEAKAGE CURRENTS; MULTILAYER FILMS; MULTILAYERS; PERMITTIVITY; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SHEAR FLOW;

BARRIER EFFECTS; BREAKDOWN STRENGTHS; DIRECTED SELF-ASSEMBLY; LAMELLAE; ZONE ANNEALING;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84963732219     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b11851     Document Type: Article

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