Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 12, Issue 16, Pages 18660-18666Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c00552
Keywords
piezoelectric materials; flexible devices; scandium aluminium nitride films; transducers; micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
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There is huge research activity in the development of flexible and biocompatible piezoelectric materials for next-generation compliant micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) transducers to be exploited in wearable devices and implants. This work reports for the first time on the development of flexible ScxAl(1-x)N films deposited by sputtering technique onto polyimide substrates, assessing their piezoelectricity and biocompatibility. Flexible ScxAl(1-x)N films have been analyzed in terms of morphological, structural, and piezoelectric properties. ScxAl(1-x)N layer exhibits a good surface roughness of 4.40 nm and moderate piezoelectricity with an extracted effective piezoelectric coefficient (d(33)(eff)) value of 1.87 +/- 0.06 pm/V, in good agreement with the diffraction pattern analysis results. Cell viability assay, performed to study the interaction of the ScxAl(1-x)N films with human cell lines, shows that this material does not have significant effects on tested cells. Furthermore, the ScxAl(1-x)N layer, integrated onto a flexible device and analyzed by bending/unbending measurements, shows a peak-to-peak open-circuit voltage (V-OC) of 0.32 V and a short-circuit current (I-SC) of 0.27 mu A, with a generated power of 19.28 nW under optimal resistive load, thus demonstrating the potential of flexible ScxAl(1-x)N films as active layers for next-generation wearable/implantable piezoelectrics.
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