Characteristics of aluminium solid electrolytic capacitors using a conducting polymer

In order to form an electrochemically polymerized polypyrrole film on an electrically insulated dielectric layer surface, a conductive precoating layer was first deposited, at the expense of electrical conductivity. Using the precoating layer as the anode, a polypyrrole layer was then deposited electrochemically in preparation for the fabrication of a solid electrolytic capacitor in which the composite conducting polymer layer was used as a solid electrolyte. Soluble polyaniline could be used as a conductive precoating layer as well as polypyrrole formed by chemical oxidizing polymerization. The capacitor using the composite solid electrolyte presented excellent impedance frequency and temperature characteristics; moreover, the solid electrolyte showed ‘self-healing’ and non-polar behaviour.