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Grass-like Aluminum Oxide: Fabrication and Applications
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School of Electrical Engineering |
Doctoral thesis (article-based)
| Defence date: 2021-05-07
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en
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64 + app. 56
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Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 53/2021
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This thesis presents grass-like alumina (GLA) – a new nanoporous coating with atomiclayer deposition-based fabrication methodology. GLA inherits valuable features of atomic layer deposition: scalability to coating hundreds of components in parallel and ability to uniformly coat substrates with extremely complicated topographies. Unique features of GLA are gradient refractive index, and high roughness and surface area.Fabrication methods for GLA are developed in this work and presented in detail. Several applications of GLA are introduced and divided into two main areas: antireflective coatings and nanoscale surface area enhancement method.
Gradient refractive index of GLA spanning from 1.6 to 1 makes it a perfect match for reducing reflection from glass and plastic substrates. Transmission for doubleside coated glass achieves remarkable 99.3% average value over entire visible region of light spectrum at normal incidence. The positive effect is even more pronounced at higher incidence angle – GLA-coated glass transmits more light at 65° incidence than uncoated glass at normal incidence. Such performance makes GLA an excellent broadband and omnidirectional anti-reflective coating. Due to the fact that it is also anon-line-of-sight coating which can be applied in a batch process, GLA is a new strong contestant in the field of anti-reflective coatings.
Rough surface of GLA enabled upgrading the developed anti-reflective coating with superhydrophobic properties. This was achieved by adding a thin top layer of a low surface energy material – fluoropolymer. Water contact angles of over 170° were achieved demonstrating excellent superhydrophobic behavior without any loss in antireflective properties. Superhydrophobic properties are known to enable self-cleaning capabilities, which are very valuable for coating exposed to atmospheric effects.
Enhancement of surface area of a functional material by a GLA substructure has been first demonstrated with improving absorption of black silicon-NbN complex in the infrared region of light spectrum. The same principle was used to develop a high surface area electrode composed of GLA sandwiched between two thin TiN layers.The electrode has shown to be highly conductive despite containing dielectric alumina, and was able to increase capacitance of a porous silicon supercapacitor by up to 4 times. The whole electrode is a nanoscale structure, which allows its combination with existing 3D structures utilized in supercapacitors, solid capacitors and batteries.
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Defence is held on 7.5.2021 12:00 – 15:00
https://aalto.zoom.us/j/66890081498
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Lipsanen, Harri, Prof., Aalto University, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, FinlandThesis advisor
Kauppinen, Christoffer, Dr., Aalto University, FinlandOther note
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- [Publication 1]: Christoffer Kauppinen, Kirill Isakov, and Markku Sopanen. Grasslike Alumina with Low Refractive Index for Scalable, Broadband, Omnidirectional Antireflection Coatings on Glass Using Atomic Layer Deposition. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9, 17, 15038–15043, April 2017.
Full text in Acris/Aaltodoc: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-202103312722DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b01733 View at publisher
- [Publication 2]: Kirill Isakov, Alexander Pyymaki Perros, Ali Shah, and Harri Lipsanen. Wide-band ’black silicon’ with atomic layer deposited NbN. Nanotechnology, 29, 33, 335303, June 2018.
Full text in Acris/Aaltodoc: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201806253483DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aac738 View at publisher
- [Publication 3]: Kirill Isakov, Christoffer Kauppinen, Sami Franssila, and Harri Lipsanen. Superhydrophobic Antireflection Coating on Glass Using Grasslike Alumina and Fluoropolymer. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12, 44, 49957-49962, October 2020.
Full text in Acris/Aaltodoc: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-2020113020611DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c12465 View at publisher
- [Publication 4]: Kirill Isakov, Olli Sorsa, Taina Rauhala, Santeri Saxelin, Christoffer Kauppinen, Tanja Kallio, and Harri Lipsanen. Grass-Like Alumina to Enhance the Performance of Porous Silicon for On-Chip Micro- Supercapacitors. Submitted to ACS Applied Energy Materials, 21 October 2020