Recently,increasing attention has been concentrated on negative permittivity with the development of the emerging metamaterials composed of periodic array structures.However,taking facile preparation into consideratio...Recently,increasing attention has been concentrated on negative permittivity with the development of the emerging metamaterials composed of periodic array structures.However,taking facile preparation into consideration,it is important to achieve negative permittivity behavior based on materials'intrinsic properties rather than their artificially periodic structures.In this paper,we proposed to fabricate the percolating composites with copper dispersed in epoxy(EP)resin by a polymerization method to realize the negative permittivity behavior.When Cu content in the composites reached to 80 wt%,the conductivity abruptly went up by three orders of magnitudes,suggesting a percolation behavior.Below the percolation threshold,the conductivity spectra conform to Jonscher's power law;when the Cu/EP composites reached to percolating state,the conductivity gradually reduced in high frequency region due to the skin effect.It is indicated that the conductive mechanism changed from hopping conduction to electron conduction.In addition,the permittivity did not increase monotonously with the increase of Cu content in the vicinity of percolation threshold,due to the presence of leakage current.Meanwhile,the negative permittivity conforming to Drude model was observed above the percolation threshold.Further investigation revealed that there was a constitutive relationship between the permittivity and the reactance.When conductive fillers are slightly above the percolation threshold,the inductive characteristic derived from conductive percolating network leads to the negative permittivity.Such epsilon-negative materials can potentially be applied in novel electrical devices,such as high-power microwave filters,stacked capacitors,negative capacitance field effect transistors and coil-free resonators.In addition,the design strategy based on percolating composites provides an approach to epsilon-negative materials.展开更多
High-k polymer composite materials are next-generation dielectrics that show amazing applications in diverse electrical and electronic devices. Establishing near-percolated network of conducting filler in an insulatin...High-k polymer composite materials are next-generation dielectrics that show amazing applications in diverse electrical and electronic devices. Establishing near-percolated network of conducting filler in an insulating polymer matrix is a promising approach to develop flexible high-k dielectrics. However, challenges still exist today on fine controlling the network morphology to achieve extremely high k values and low losses simultaneously. The relationship between the network morphology and the dielectric properties of polymer composites is raising a number of fundamental questions. Herein, recent progress towards high-k polymer composites based on carbon nanomaterials is reviewed. Particular attention is paid on the influence of the network morphology on the dielectric properties. Some perspectives that warrant further investigation in the future are also addressed.展开更多
基金sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.51803119,51871146 and 51771108)the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (Grant No.2019-01-07-00-10-E00053)+1 种基金"Chenguang Program" supported by Shanghai Education Development Foundation and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (Grant No.18CG56)the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Grant No.18DZ1112902,No.18DZ1100802)
文摘Recently,increasing attention has been concentrated on negative permittivity with the development of the emerging metamaterials composed of periodic array structures.However,taking facile preparation into consideration,it is important to achieve negative permittivity behavior based on materials'intrinsic properties rather than their artificially periodic structures.In this paper,we proposed to fabricate the percolating composites with copper dispersed in epoxy(EP)resin by a polymerization method to realize the negative permittivity behavior.When Cu content in the composites reached to 80 wt%,the conductivity abruptly went up by three orders of magnitudes,suggesting a percolation behavior.Below the percolation threshold,the conductivity spectra conform to Jonscher's power law;when the Cu/EP composites reached to percolating state,the conductivity gradually reduced in high frequency region due to the skin effect.It is indicated that the conductive mechanism changed from hopping conduction to electron conduction.In addition,the permittivity did not increase monotonously with the increase of Cu content in the vicinity of percolation threshold,due to the presence of leakage current.Meanwhile,the negative permittivity conforming to Drude model was observed above the percolation threshold.Further investigation revealed that there was a constitutive relationship between the permittivity and the reactance.When conductive fillers are slightly above the percolation threshold,the inductive characteristic derived from conductive percolating network leads to the negative permittivity.Such epsilon-negative materials can potentially be applied in novel electrical devices,such as high-power microwave filters,stacked capacitors,negative capacitance field effect transistors and coil-free resonators.In addition,the design strategy based on percolating composites provides an approach to epsilon-negative materials.
基金supported by project ELENA,funded by France ANR and Solvay, and of the Labex AMADEus (No. ANR-10-LABX-0042-AMADEus)
文摘High-k polymer composite materials are next-generation dielectrics that show amazing applications in diverse electrical and electronic devices. Establishing near-percolated network of conducting filler in an insulating polymer matrix is a promising approach to develop flexible high-k dielectrics. However, challenges still exist today on fine controlling the network morphology to achieve extremely high k values and low losses simultaneously. The relationship between the network morphology and the dielectric properties of polymer composites is raising a number of fundamental questions. Herein, recent progress towards high-k polymer composites based on carbon nanomaterials is reviewed. Particular attention is paid on the influence of the network morphology on the dielectric properties. Some perspectives that warrant further investigation in the future are also addressed.