Very good show in IEEE NANO 2015, Rome, Italy, 27th
to 30th July 2015:
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Arwa T Kutbee, Mohamed T. Ghoneim and Muhammad
M. Hussain, “Flexible Lithium-Ion Planer Thin-Film Battery”
Commercialization
of wearable electronics requires miniaturized, flexible power sources. Lithium
ion battery is a strong candidate as the next generation high performance
flexible battery world. The development of flexible materials for battery
electrodes suffers from the limited material choices. In this work, we present a flexible inorganic
lithium-ion battery with no restrictions on the materials used. The battery
showed an enhanced normalized capacity of 146 mAh/cm2.
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Mohamed T. Ghoneim, Nasir Alfaraj, Galo A.
Torres Sevilla and Muhammad M. Hussain, “Ultra-High Density Out-of-plane Strain
Sensor based on Nano-scale Non-Planar 3D FinFET”
In future
wearable electronics will need to be flexible and stretchable to comply with
the asymmetry of our body. At the same time, they need to of high-performance,
energy-efficient and multi-functional. State-of-the-art nano-scale non-planar
3D FinFETs serve all these purposes. Therefore, here we show an out-of-plane
strain sensor based on flexible silicon-on-insulator FinFET. We used CMOS
processes to transform an array of standard rigid devices to flexible one. The
gate leakage current in the devices show substantial dependence on the applied
out-of-plane strain promising its potential usage as a switching device as well
as a strain sensor.
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Jhonathan P. Rojas, Wejdan M. Alqarni, Justine
E. Mink, Kalthom K. Kalantan and Muhammad M. Hussain, “Nano-watt Power From
Micro-Scale Microbial Fuel Cell Using Black Tea Waste”
We
report the rapid assessment of black tea as potential fuel to feed nanopower
systems using a microsized, simplistic and sustainable, air-cathode microbial
fuel cell. It was found that tea produced higher power (5.5 nW/m2)
compared with traditional sodium acetate media (2.5 nW/m2) due in
part to its acidophilic pH and its higher organics content.
Congrats to Arwa,
Ghoneim and Jhonathan!