WO2008068677A1 - Solid-state structure comprising a battery and a variable capacitor having a capacitance which is controlled by the state-of charge of the battery - Google Patents
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- Solid-state structure comprising a variable capacitor and a battery of which the capacitance is controlled by conditions prevailing in the battery
- controllable or tunable MEMS capacitors are widely investigated, these devices employ freestanding beams or membranes that are prone to collapse or get stuck in a "closed” state. This can result from poor processing during the under-etching of the beams or after the application of too high a DC voltage across the beam structure, resulting in over-stressing and subsequent sticking.
- the freestanding parts in MEMS tunable capacitors can deflect up to a certain threshold, generally up to about 75% of the original gap size for a membrane. If exceeded, collapse or sticking will occur, rendering the device useless.
- the change in capacitance value is dependent on the geometry of the MEMS design, but is always limited by the fact that the ratio between the "low” and “high” capacitance state is rather small for devices with a small footprint, that is the surface area used on the substrate. Only for, for example, very long beams and thus a large surface area, this ratio can be substantially higher.
- a continuously applied high DC voltage is needed in the order of 10-50 V.
- Novel concepts like 3D integration of all-solid-state rechargeable thin film Li- ion batteries were previously described in document WO2005/O27245A2.
- these power sources can be used for many applications such as implantables, sensors and autonomous devices.
- these battery stacks can also be advantageously used in the creation of a fully tunable capacitor.
- This invention is based on the realization that the thickness of a solid-state battery varies with conditions prevailing in the battery.
- a capacitor plate When one side of such a stacked solid-state battery is fixed and a capacitor plate is connected to the other side thereof, said capacitor plate moves when the charge condition of the battery is changed, resulting in a change of the capacitance value of the capacitor.
- the second capacitor plate may be fixed or may be subject of a similar structure for changing its position. Consequently a kind of electrochemically tunable capacitor is obtained.
- the present invention provides a solid-state variable capacitor, comprising: a first capacitor plate; a second capacitor plate, extending substantially parallel to the first capacitor plate and on a distance from said first capacitor plate; wherein at least the first capacitor plate is structurally coupled to one side of a first layered solid-state battery wherein the layers of said first solid-state battery extend substantially parallel to the first capacitor plate and wherein the first solid-state battery is susceptible to variations in the size in the direction perpendicular to the plane of its layers.
- This novel capacitor has no freestanding parts as in the prior art, so the problems of sticking or collapse of such parts is avoided by the invention.
- the electrochemically tunable capacitor disclosed in this document a wide range for capacitance values are attainable.
- the maximum ratio between the "low” and “high” capacitance state can be very high. This can be achieved by changing the chemistry within the battery stack to yield a stack that expands/contracts substantially upon charging/discharging. This will not result in a significant surface area enlargement or footprint and will therefore be much less space-consuming as a tunable MEMS capacitor employing a very long freestanding beam as forms part of the prior art.
- a preferred embodiment provides a variable capacitor of the kind referred to above wherein the solid-state variable capacitor comprises a battery cathodic electrode layer deposited on a substrate, a solid electrolyte layer deposited on the battery cathodic electrode layer, a battery anodic electrode layer deposited on the solid electrolyte layer, a dielectric layer deposited on the battery anodic layer, the first capacitor plate provided on the dielectric layer, the second capacitor plate and wherein at least one of the electrode layers has the property that its thickness varies with the density of the active species in the at least one electrode.
- This embodiment makes use of the fact that the variation of thickness of the battery stack is substantially attributable to the electrode layers thereof and in particular with the concentration of the active species in said electrode layers, allowing to optimize the design of the battery stack to the required capacitor properties by careful selection and design of the electrode layers.
- the electrode layers are understood to comprise the current collector layers often used in battery stacks of this kind. It will however be clear that the volume of the current collector is substantially constant and that the volume of the electrode itself will vary under the influence of the prevailing conditions, like the concentration of the active species.
- such a capacitor is obtained by a method for producing a solid-state variable capacitor with a first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate extending substantially parallel to the first capacitor plate on a distance from said first capacitor plate, wherein at least the first capacitor plate is structurally coupled to one side of a first layered solid-state battery structure of which the size in the direction perpendicular to the plates is variable, the method comprising the steps of providing a substrate, deposition of a battery cathode layer on the substrate, deposition of a solid electrolyte layer on the battery cathode layer, deposition of a battery anode layer on the solid electrolyte layer, deposition of a dielectric layer on the battery anode layer, deposition of the first capacitor plate on the dielectric layer and provision of the second capacitor plate.
- This method provides a simple way of constructing the structure for a capacitor according to the invention, wherein use is made of technologies common in the field of production of solid-state batteries. It will be clear that also in this method the application of the electrode layers is understood to comprise the relevant current collector layers as well.
- the materials which are preferably used as the battery anode show the most variation in thickness under the influence of the concentration of the active species. Consequently a preferred embodiment provides the feature that the first solid-state battery has an anodic electrode comprising a material chosen such that the thickness of the anodic electrode varies with the concentration of the active species in said anode. It is however by no means excluded that the variable thickness of the battery stack is obtained through use of appropriate materials in other layers, either on its own, or in combination with similar features in other layers. Further it is noted that due to the migration of the active species between the electrodes, expansion of one electrode may well be accompanied by contraction of the other electrode. However when one of these effects is substantially stronger than the other a contraction or expansion of the battery stack as a whole results.
- a further preferred embodiment provides the feature that the active species in the solid state battery is formed by lithium (Li) and that the anode comprises an anode material chosen from the group of silicon (Si), tin (Sn), germanium (Ge), antimony (Sb), bismuth (Bi), zinc (Zn) or an alloy of these metals. It has appeared that the resulting combination yields attractive variations in the thickness of the anode layers.
- At least one electrode of the energy source according to the invention is adapted for storage of active species of at least one of following elements: hydrogen (H), , beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), aluminium (Al), copper (Cu), silver (Ag), sodium (Na) and potassium (K), or any other suitable element which is assigned to group 1 or group 2 of the periodic table.
- the capacitor according to the invention may be based on various intercalation mechanisms and is therefore suitable to comprise different kinds of (reserve-type) batteries, e.g. Li-ion battery cells, NiMH battery cells, et cetera.
- the structure according to the invention provides two different electrical circuits, that is the battery circuit and the capacitor circuit, wherein the battery circuit is used to control the capacitance value of the capacitor. It is attractive to make the control circuit independent from the capacitor circuit. To provide such independence yet another preferred embodiment provides the feature that between said first capacitor plate and the first solid- state battery a dielectric layer is present. This layer provides a proper separation of the capacitor electrode from the battery anode often including the current collector layer connected thereto.
- the dielectric layer is made of a material having a low relative dielectric constant. This provides an even better separation between the battery or control circuit and the capacitor circuit.
- the dielectric material is doped SiO 2 , porous SiO 2 , polymers
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- the capacitor structure referred to above may be doubled to obtain the combined variation in distance of the capacitor plates and hence of the capacity of the capacitor.
- Such a doubled structure is obtained when the second capacitor plate is structurally coupled to one side of a second solid- state layered battery, the layers of said second solid-state battery extend substantially parallel to the second capacitor plate and the second solid-state battery is susceptible to variations in the size in the direction perpendicular to the plane of its layers.
- the structure described by this claim comprises two batteries and a single capacitor, wherein the capacitance of the capacitor is dependant on the charge condition in each of the batteries.
- a capacitor according to such a structural embodiment is preferably obtained by a method which is executed in a substrate with a deep trench structure and wherein subsequently to the formation of the stack of layers, the stack of layers at the bottom of the trench is removed.
- This is a technique proven to be advantageous in the field of batteries.
- the removal of the stack of layers at the bottom of the trench is preferably performed by chemical mechanical polishing or wet chemical etching, as these techniques are well known techniques in the processing of integrated circuits.
- first and the second batteries have structures which are mirrored relative to the centre of the middle plane of the first and the second capacitor plates. This reduction is obtained by the effects of symmetry. Consequently preferably the method is symmetrically executed in a substrate with a deep trench structure.
- the first and second batteries are connected to separate control circuits, offering the possibility for a dual control of the capacitance of the capacitor.
- An example is to use one of the batteries for coarse control of the capacity and the other battery for fine tuning thereof. This is especially attractive if the materials and geometry of the structure are chosen accordingly.
- variable capacitor which is composed of a plurality of variable capacitors of the kind referred to above wherein the capacitor plates of said capacitors are mutually connected.
- a second structural embodiment provides the feature that the first and the second capacitor plates have been formed on different substrates and the substrates have been united after the formation of the first and second capacitor plates. This embodiment is in particular effective in situations wherein one of the capacitor plates is fixed and the other plate is connected to the battery stack.
- a special embodiment which is independent from the structure provides the feature that the space between the first and the second plate has been enclosed and sealed from the environment and that the space has been filled with a gas, a liquid or vacuum. This allows a further possibility to design the capacitance of the capacitor. If a fluid is used, provisions must be taken to allow for the volumetric variation of the cavity due to the changeable position of the capacitor plates, for instance by providing a flexible membrane.
- At least one surface of at least one electrode is substantially regularly patterned, and more preferably that the applied pattern is provided with one or more cavities, in particular pillars, trenches, slits, or holes, which particular cavities can be applied in a relatively accurate manner. In this manner the increased performance of the controllable capacitor can also be predetermined in a relatively accurate manner.
- a surface of the substrate onto which the stack is deposited may be either substantially flat or may be patterned (by curving the substrate and/or providing the substrate with trenches, holes and/or pillars) to facilitate generating a three-dimensional oriented capacitor.
- a surface of the substrate onto which the stack is deposited may be either substantially flat or may be patterned (by curving the substrate and/or providing the substrate with trenches, holes and/or pillars) to facilitate generating a three-dimensional oriented capacitor.
- each electrode comprises a current collector. By means of the current collectors the cell can easily be connected to an electronic device.
- the current collectors are made of at least one of the following materials: Al, Ni, Pt, Au, Ag, Cu, Ta, Ti, TaN, and TiN.
- Other kinds of current collectors such as, preferably doped, semiconductor materials such as e.g. Si, GaAs, InP may also be applied to act as current collector.
- the capacitor preferably comprises at least one barrier layer being deposited between the substrate and at least one electrode, which barrier layer is adapted to at least substantially preclude diffusion of active species of the cell into said substrate.
- the barrier layer is preferably made of at least one of the following materials: Ta, TaN, Ti, and TiN. It may be clear that also other suitable materials may be used to act as barrier layer.
- a substrate is applied, which is ideally suitable to be subjected to a surface treatment to pattern the substrate, which may facilitate patterning of the electrode(s).
- the substrate is more preferably made of at least one of the following materials: C, Si, Sn, Ti, Ge, Al, Cu, Ta, and Pb. A combination of these materials may also be used to form the substrate(s).
- n-type or p-type doped Si or Ge is used as substrate, or a doped Si-related and/or Ge-related compound, like SiGe or SiGeC.
- the invention also provides an electrical device comprising an electrochemical energy source as claimed in any of the preceding claims. Also in such an embodiment the fruitful effects of the invention appear very well.
- Yet another embodiment provides the feature that the second capacitor plate is provided by flip-chipping a second substrate with a fixed capacitor plate on the assembly, leading to a particular attractive method for producing a capacitor according to the present invention.
- Fig. 1 shows a schematic perspective view of Li-battery in silicon substrate with the thin film trench structure
- Fig. 2 shows a schematic perspective view of a capacitor according to the invention with a battery with the structure of a single trench, wherein a complete stack is deposited;
- Fig. 3 shows a schematic perspective view of the structure of a trench after the removal of the bottom of the trench by thinning the substrate;
- Figs. 4a and 4b show a schematic perspective view of the structure of a capacitor according to the invention, together with electrical connections, in different situations;
- Figs. 5a and 5b show a schematic perspective view of the structure of a capacitor according to a second structural embodiment after the deposition process and after the flipping of the upper half of the chip respectively.
- Figure 1 shows the all solid-state thin film battery disclosed in document WO2005/O27245A2.
- a stack can be manufactured that can be used to make an electrochemically tunable capacitor.
- This stack is depicted in Figure 2.
- a schematic representation is shown of a single trench in a substrate 1 in which a trench 2 is formed wherein a battery stack denoted in its whole by 3 is deposited according to the prior art method mentioned above.
- This battery stack 3 applied on the substrate 1 comprises a current collector layer 4, a cathode layer 5, an solid-state electrolyte layer 6 and an anode layer 7.
- a current collector layer 8 is deposited on top of the anode layer 7 .
- a dielectric layer 9 is deposited and thereon conductive layer 10, which will be used as the capacitor plate from the current collector layer 8.
- the dielectric layer 9 shields and insulates the conductive layer 10 from the current collector layer 8.
- the next step in the manufacturing procedure would be to remove the stack 3 of layers at the bottom of the trench 2 in order to create two separate stacks 3 that are each other's mirror image.
- This is shown in Figure 3.
- the simplest way to achieve this is to thin down the substrate 1, for example using chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) techniques or wet chemical etching, until the bottom 11 of the trench 2 is removed.
- CMP chemical mechanical polishing
- a substrate with via trenches can be used. In both cases a situation is obtained that is shown in Figure 3. It is apparent that after removal of the bottom 11 of the trench 2 two individual stacks 3 remain that each consists of a battery stack 3, a capacitor plate 10, and a dielectric shielding layer 9 between said capacitor plate 10 and the anode current collector layer 8.
- FIG 4 schematically shows how charging or discharging the battery stack 3 can alter the capacitance value.
- Charging or discharging the battery stack 3 can be done galvanostatically or potentio statically, generally needing a low voltage of 1 to 5 V depending on the battery electrode materials utilized. It is known from that a complete battery stack expands or contracts upon charging and discharging respectively. Depending in the exact battery electrode materials used in the stack the complete volume expansion can be reduced/minimized. However, this volume change can also be utilized for the aim of the present invention.
- Suitable battery electrode materials with a very high volume expansion are mainly anode materials such as; Si, Sn, Ge, Pb, Sb, or Bi.
- the battery stack 3 expands upon charging and contracts upon discharging.
- This effect is caused by the volumetric expansion of the anodes 7 due to the varying concentration of the active species within said anode.
- this volumetric expansion or reduction results in a variation of the thickness of the electrodes, resulting in the movement of the capacitor plates.
- the capacitor plates will have a large gap in between them, as shown in Figure 4a.
- Charging the battery will result in uni-axial expansion of the battery stacks 3 on both sides of the trench 2 bringing the capacitor plates 10 closer to one another, as shown in Figure 4b.
- the capacitance value can be measured and utilized at connection points 1 and 2.
- FIGs 2 to 4 a two-sided approach towards an electrochemically tunable capacitor is shown.
- both capacitor plates 10 are movable.
- a single-sided approach might be opted for if manufacturing and/or integration is easier.
- This option is shown in Figures 5 a and 5b.
- Both figures show a configuration wherein the lower capacitor plate 10 is moveable, whereas a capacitor plate 13 on the upper side is fixed.
- FIG 5a a configuration is shown which can be produced in a process similar to that of the figures 2-4, although it may very well be produced by a planar process.
- the design shown in figure 5b might be manufactured by initially processing the full stack 3 on a wafer 1 in a planar fashion and subsequently flip-chipping a substrate 12 with the fixed capacitor plate 13 on top of this assembly.
- MEMS technology can be effectively utilized to manufacture cavities for the disclosed tunable capacitors. It should be noted that if the tunable capacitor is manufactured within a closed and sealed cavity, the cavity itself can be either filled with a gas, like (O 2 , N 2 , Ar) or be vacuum. This feature offers the possibility for a wider variation in capacitance as the medium between both capacitor plates also determines the capacitance value that can be obtained. It is noted that this last feature is applicable to both capacitors having the structure as disclosed in the figures 2-4 and in those having the structure of figure 5, or in any other suitable configuration.
- a gas like (O 2 , N 2 , Ar)
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