Supercapacitor activated carbon performance / Ahmad Aliff Aminuddin

Supercapacitor can be considered as one of the future potential in energy storage alternatives. The supercapacitor operates by the same fundamental as a conventional capacitor. The major differences is that the supercapacitor utilize higher surface area of an electrode and thinner dielectrics in order to achieve higher capacitances values. By that, a supercapacitor will produce higher energy density compared to the conventional capacitor and also higher power densities when compared to a conventional batteries. By that, the interest for supercapacitor has increased in various type and numbers of applications day by day. This thesis focused on describing various types of supercapacitor and also the improvement being made to overcome certain constraint in the mechanism of the supercapcitor. Also, the future and prospect of the supercapacitor also being discussed and viewed.