title: Amorphous titanium-oxide supercapacitors.
abstract: The electric capacitance of an amorphous TiO2-xsurface increases proportionally to the negative sixth power of the convex diameter d. This occurs because of the van der Waals attraction on the amorphous surface of up to 7 mF/cm2, accompanied by extreme enhanced electron trapping resulting from both the quantum-size effect and an offset effect from positive charges at oxygen-vacancy sites. Here we show that a supercapacitor, constructed with a distributed constant-equipment circuit of large resistance and small capacitance on the amorphous TiO2-xsurface, illuminated a red LED for 37 ms after it was charged with 1 mA at 10 V. The fabricated device showed no dielectric breakdown up to 1,100 V. Based on this approach, further advances in the development of amorphous titanium-dioxide supercapacitors might be attained by integrating oxide ribbons with a micro-electro mechanical system.
authors: New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8579 Japan.
authors: Mikio
authors: M
authors: Fukuhara
authors: New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8579 Japan.
authors: Tomoyuki
authors: T
authors: Kuroda
authors: New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8579 Japan.
authors: Fumihiko
authors: F
authors: Hasegawa