AlN piezoelectric thin films for energy harvesting and acoustic devices

C Fei, X Liu, B Zhu, D Li, X Yang, Y Yang, Q Zhou - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Aluminum nitride (AlN) thin films are widely investigated due to their unique physical
properties and applications in energy harvesting devices, ultrasonic transducers …

[HTML][HTML] Reactive sputtering of aluminum nitride (002) thin films for piezoelectric applications: A review

A Iqbal, F Mohd-Yasin - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
We summarize the recipes and describe the role of sputtering parameters in producing
highly c-axis Aluminum Nitride (AlN) films for piezoelectric applications. The information is …

A review of the recent applications of aluminum nitride-based piezoelectric devices

ST Haider, MA Shah, DG Lee, S Hur - Ieee Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezoelectric materials have attracted considerable attention over the last two decades
because many technologies utilize their core properties of piezoelectric materials. Previous …

A review of oriented wurtzite-structure aluminum nitride films

H Yang, J Sun, H Wang, H Li, B Yang - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2024 - Elsevier
Aluminum nitride (AlN), distinguished by exceptional mechanical, optical, and electronic
properties, has found extensive applications in diverse domains, including heat dissipation …

Piezo/triboelectric nanogenerators based on 2-dimensional layered structure materials

SA Han, J Lee, J Lin, SW Kim, JH Kim - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, research on energy harvesting has attracted great attention as a solution to energy
depletion and environmental problems due to the use of fossil fuels such as coal, natural …

Significant texture and wear resistance improvement of TiN coatings using pulsed DC magnetron sputtering

NA Richter, B Yang, JP Barnard, T Niu, X Sheng… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Titanium nitride (TiN) coatings fabricated through reactive sputtering feature a suite of
parameters capable of altering the microstructure and properties. Here, we explore the …

A review of ultrawide bandgap materials: properties, synthesis and devices

M Xu, D Wang, K Fu, DH Mudiyanselage… - Oxford Open …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Ultrawide bandgap (UWBG) materials such as diamond, Ga2O3, hexagonal boron nitride (h-
BN) and AlN, are a new class of semiconductors that possess a wide range of attractive …

Flexible and transparent aluminum‐nitride‐based surface‐acoustic‐wave device on polymeric polyethylene naphthalate

L Lamanna, F Rizzi, F Guido, L Algieri… - Advanced Electronic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The development of wearable technology increasingly requires bendable sensing devices
operating across multiple domains for opto‐electro‐mechanical and biochemical …

The influence of sputter deposition parameters on piezoelectric and mechanical properties of AlN thin films

A Ababneh, U Schmid, J Hernando… - Materials Science and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Aluminium nitride (AlN) reactively sputter-deposited from an aluminium target is an
interesting piezoelectric thin film material with high CMOS compatibility. A good c-axis …

Facilitating complex thin film deposition by using magnetron sputtering: a review

J Li, GK Ren, J Chen, X Chen, W Wu, Y Liu, X Chen… - Jom, 2022 - Springer
In light of the low deposition temperature and high sputtering rate, a magnetron sputtering
(MS) technique has been widely used for fabricating various kinds of thin films with special …