Progress in THz rectifier technology: Research and perspectives

R Citroni, F Di Paolo, P Livreri - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Schottky diode (SD) has seen great improvements in the past few decades and, for many
THz applications, it is the most useful device. However, the use and recycling of forms of …

Nanoscale film thickness gradients printed in open air by spatially varying chemical vapor deposition

AH Alshehri, JY Loke, VH Nguyen… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoscale films are integral to all modern electronics. To optimize device performance,
researchers vary the film thickness by making batches of devices, which is time‐consuming …

Optimized polarization-independent Chand-Bali nano-antenna for thermal IR energy harvesting

AY Elsharabasy, MH Bakr, MJ Deen - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
A novel, polarization-independent, wide-angle reception Chand-Bali nano-antenna is
proposed. An adjoint-based optimization algorithm is used to create the same resonance at …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical analysis of MIM nano-rectenna with metasurface for infrared energy harvesting

H Rmili, A Yahyaoui, J Yousaf, A Elsharabasy… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
A novel approach for infrared (IR) energy harvesting through the integration of a resonating
metasurface with a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) nano-rectenna is presented. The absorption …

Applicability of Sc2O3 versus Al2O3 in MIM rectifiers for IR rectenna

S Almalki, SB Tekin, N Sedghi, S Hall, IZ Mitrovic - Solid-State Electronics, 2021 - Elsevier
Impedance matching between the terahertz antenna and ultra-fast Metal-Insulator-Metal
(MIM) diode is a crucial issue in realizing rectenna technology for harvesting infrared (IR) …

Photon-assisted tunnel rectenna for solar energy harvesting

Y Zhou, B Zhang, Z Luo, Q Cheng - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we introduce a solar rectenna that is combined with a periodic subwavelength
spiral antenna and a metal-oxide-semiconductor photon-assisted tunneling diode. We …

MIM and MIIM-Based Optical Rectennas for Infrared Energy Harvesting at 10.6 μm

A Yahyaoui, A Elsharabasy, J Yousaf… - 2023 22nd …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a comparative study between metal-insulator-metal (MIM) and metal-
insulator-insulator-metal (MIIM) based optical log spiral rectennas for infrared IR energy …

Ambient Infrared Solar Energy Harvesting Using Log-Periodic Optical Rectenna at 28.3 THz

A Yahyaoui, A Elsharabasy… - 2023 22nd …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents the conception and design of log-periodic nano-antenna for the infrared
IR solar energy harvesting applications. The suggested nano-antenna contain three layers …

MIIM Rectenna with a Meta-lens for Enhanced IR Energy Scavenging at 28.3 THz

A Yahyaoui, A Elsharabasy, J Yousaf, B Hakim… - 2023 - preprints.org
This work presents the design and analysis of a novel metal-insulator-insulator-metal (MIIM)
rectenna with an added meta lens on top of it for efficient and robust infrared (IR) energy …

[PDF][PDF] Progress in THz Rectifier Technology: Research and Perspectives. Nanomaterials 2022, 12, 2479

R Citroni, F Di Paolo, P Livreri - 2022 - academia.edu
Schottky diode (SD) has seen great improvements in the past few decades and, for many
THz applications, it is the most useful device. However, the use and recycling of forms of …