Construction of Desirable NiCoTe_(2) Nanosheet Arrays on a Carbon Cloth Substrate as a Positive Electrode Material for a High-Performance Asymmetric Supercapacitor

Nickel–cobalt tellurides are deemed as promising electrode materials for energy storage devices due to their superior conductivity and theoretical specific capacitance.Here,NiCoTe_(2)was successfully fabricated on carbon cloth by facile electrodeposition and hydrothermal synthesis,which can directly serve as a binderless electrode.The NiCoTe_(2)with interconnected nanosheet arrays on a conductive carbon substrate showed a high specific capacitance(924 F/g at 1 A/g)and robust longterm cycling stability(89.6%retention after 5000 cycles).In addition,the assembled NiCoTe_(2)//activiated carbon hybrid supercapacitor achieved a high energy and power density with a short charging time(42.26 Wh/kg at a power density of 760.96 W/kg).This work provides a novel idea to produce bimetallic nickel–cobalt telluride nanosheet array electrodes for high-performance hybrid supercapacitors.

A high-temperature superconducting filter with controllable transmission zero

This paper presents a novel microstrip feedline structure to introduce an extra and controllable transmission zero（TZ）with high rejection for a narrowband filter. This structure loads a reconfigurable capacitor at the end of the input feedline without changing the main structure of the filter. The capacitor is recognized by a 2-bit inter-digital capacitor array. The asymmetrical microstrip feedline structure is suitable for multiple-pole filter designs. A low-loss six-pole high-temperature superconducting bandpass filter with a reconfigurable TZ is designed and fabricated. The center frequency of the filter is 5.22 GHz with TZ at the lower stopband. The TZ can be tuned among four different states. The out-of-band rejection at the TZ frequency is higher than 90 d B, and the insertion loss is lower than 0.92 d B. The measured results are consistent with the simulations.