Polymer Dielectrics with Outstanding Dielectric Characteristics via Passivation with Oxygen Atoms through C-F Vacancy...

The development of advanced electrical equipment necessitates polymer dielectrics with a higher electric strength. Unfortunately, this bottleneck problem has yet to be solved because current material modification methods do not allow direct control of deep traps. Here, we propose a method for directly passivating deep traps. Measurements of nanoscale microregion charge characteristics and trap parameters reveal a significant reduction in the number of deep traps. The resulting polymer dielectric has an impressively high electrical strength, less surface charge accumulation, and a significantly increased flashover voltage and breakdown strength. In addition, the energy storage density is increased without sacrificing the charge-discharge efficiency. This reveals a new approach to increasing the energy storage density by reducing the trap energy levels at the electrode-dielectric interface. We further calculated and analyzed the microscopic physical mechanism of deep trap passivation based on density functional theory and characterized the contributions of orbital composition and orbital hybridization.