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Titanium Oxynitride Thin Film and Nanowires for Ultrahigh Capacitance Supercapacitors

Apr 2, 2026, 12:25 PM
20m
Room B

Room B

ORAL Power Microelectronics Technical Session 3

Speaker

Sheilah Cherono (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University,)

Description

High-quality, multifunctional two-dimensional (2D) titanium oxynitride (TiNO) thin films and one-dimensional (1D) TiNO nanowires have been synthesized using a pulsed laser deposition, a simple, fast, and congruent evaporation method. First-principles calculations as a function of surface orientation and termination indicate that surface oxidation of TiNO nanowires can stabilize the (110) orientation observed experimentally. The specific capacitance value for the TiNO nanowire samples (2725 mF/cm2) has been found to be nearly six times more than that of the TiNO thin film samples (400 mF/cm2), which is attributed to the high packing density of TiNO nanowires over a given area. The nanowire samples have also been found to exhibit a significantly higher energy density (1.35 μWh/cm2) than the TiNO thin-film samples (0.33 μWh/cm2). Thus, the TiNO material system in thin-film and nanowire forms has been demonstrated to be a promising candidate for use as an electrode material in supercapacitors and other charge-storage applications.

Academic or Professional Status Graduate Student

Author

Sheilah Cherono (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University,)

Co-authors

Dhananjay Kumar (Department of Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina 27411, United States) Ghanashyam Gyawali (Department of Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina 27411, United States) Panupong Jaipan (North Carolina A&T State University) Ram K. Gupta (Department of Chemistry, Kansas Polymer Research Centre, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, Kansas 66762, United States) Simon Gelin (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States) Zixiao Shi (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, Newyork 14853, United States)

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