Fabrication and characterization of thermally drawn fiber capacitors
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Lestoquoy, Guillaume
Wang, Zheng
Fink, Yoel
Chocat, Noemie
Joannopoulos, John
Date Issued
April 2013
Journal
Applied Physics Letters
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
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Lestoquoy, Guillaume, Noémie Chocat, Zheng Wang, John D. Joannopoulos, and Yoel Fink. “Fabrication and characterization of thermally drawn fiber capacitors.” Applied Physics Letters 102, no. 15 (2013): 152908. © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC
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Abstract
We report on the fabrication of all-in-fiber capacitors with poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) as the dielectric material. Electrodes made of conductive polymer are separated by a PVDF thin film within a polycarbonate casing that is thermally drawn into multiple meters of light-weight, readily functional fiber. Capacitive response up to 20 kHz is measured and losses at higher-frequencies are accounted for in a materials-based model. A multilayered architecture in which a folded PVDF film separates interdigitated electrodes over an increased area is fabricated. This structure greatly enhances the capacitance, which scales linearly with the fiber length and is unaffected by fiber dimension fluctuations.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4802783