TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancement of electrical properties of polyimide films by plasma treatment
AU - Meddeb, A. Barhoumi
AU - Ounaies, Z.
AU - Lanagan, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was sponsored by development of capacitor technologies on behalf of DOE's office of vehicle technologies program (DOE contract # 1F-31022). The sponsor was not involved in the collection, analysis or the interpretations or the writing of this letter.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - In this study, the effect of oxygen plasma treatment on the electrical and surface properties of polyimide, Kapton HN, film is investigated. The plasma treatment led to an increase in the oxygen presence on the polyimide surface and a marked surface hydrophilicity. The plasma treatment led to an increase in the dielectric breakdown and Weibull modulus as well as a remarkable reduction in the scatter of all electrical measurements. There is a significant reduction in the high field/high temperature leakage current after plasma treatment. These findings have important implications in the development and improvement of dielectric polymer capacitors.
AB - In this study, the effect of oxygen plasma treatment on the electrical and surface properties of polyimide, Kapton HN, film is investigated. The plasma treatment led to an increase in the oxygen presence on the polyimide surface and a marked surface hydrophilicity. The plasma treatment led to an increase in the dielectric breakdown and Weibull modulus as well as a remarkable reduction in the scatter of all electrical measurements. There is a significant reduction in the high field/high temperature leakage current after plasma treatment. These findings have important implications in the development and improvement of dielectric polymer capacitors.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cplett.2016.02.037
DO - 10.1016/j.cplett.2016.02.037
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84959547202
SN - 0009-2614
VL - 649
SP - 111
EP - 114
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
ER -