High energy storage capacitor by embedding tunneling nano-structures

Holme, Timothy P; Prinz, Friedrich B; Van Stockum, Philip B

Title: High energy storage capacitor by embedding tunneling nano-structures

Patent · Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2014

OSTI ID:1163240

Holme, Timothy P; Prinz, Friedrich B; Van Stockum, Philip B

In an All-Electron Battery (AEB), inclusions embedded in an active region between two electrodes of a capacitor provide enhanced energy storage. Electrons can tunnel to/from and/or between the inclusions, thereby increasing the charge storage density relative to a conventional capacitor. One or more barrier layers is present in an AEB to block DC current flow through the device. The AEB effect can be enhanced by using multi-layer active regions having inclusion layers with the inclusions separated by spacer layers that don't have the inclusions. The use of cylindrical geometry or wrap around electrodes and/or barrier layers in a planar geometry can enhance the basic AEB effect. Other physical effects that can be employed in connection with the AEB effect are excited state energy storage, and formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC).

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Research Organization:: Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: SC0001060

Assignee:: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, CA)

Patent Number(s):: 8,877,367

Application Number:: 12/928,346

OSTI ID:: 1163240

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2010 Dec 09

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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