Engineering the current–voltage characteristics of metal–insulator–metal diodes using double-insulator tunnel barriers

S Grover, G Moddel - Solid-State Electronics, 2012 - Elsevier
The femtosecond-fast transport in metal–insulator–metal (MIM) tunnel diodes makes them
attractive for applications such as ultra-high frequency rectenna detectors and solar cells …

Traveling-wave metal/insulator/metal diodes for improved infrared bandwidth and efficiency of antenna-coupled rectifiers

S Grover, O Dmitriyeva, MJ Estes… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We evaluate a technique to improve the performance of antenna-coupled diode rectifiers
working in the IR. Efficient operation of conventional, lumped-element rectifiers is limited to …

Efficient waveguide-integrated tunnel junction detectors at 1.6 µm

PCD Hobbs, RB Laibowitz, FR Libsch, NC LaBianca… - Optics express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
Near-infrared detectors based on metal-insulator-metal tunnel junctions integrated with
planarized silicon nanowire waveguides are presented, which we believe to be the first of …

Quantum theory of operation for rectenna solar cells

S Grover, S Joshi, G Moddel - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical rectennas, sub-micrometre antenna-coupled diodes, can directly rectify solar and
thermal electromagnetic radiation, and have been proposed as an alternative to …

Controlled etching and regrowth of tunnel oxide for antenna-coupled metal-oxide-metal diodes

B Tiwari, JA Bean, G Szakmány… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The authors have designed a new procedure for fabrication of infrared (IR) sensors. These
sensors consist of a dipole antenna coupled with a metal-oxide-metal (MOM)(Al–AlO x–Pt) …

Quantum conductivity for metal–insulator–metal nanostructures

JW Haus, D de Ceglia, MA Vincenti, M Scalora - JOSA B, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We present a methodology based on quantum mechanics for assigning quantum
conductivity when an ac field is applied across a variable gap between two plasmonic …

Metal single-insulator and multi-insulator diodes for rectenna solar cells

S Grover, G Moddel - Rectenna solar cells, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Metal/insulator/metal (MIM) diodes work on the inherently fast mechanism of
tunneling and have been used in a number of high-frequency applications. This makes them …

Nonlinear quantum tunneling effects in nanoplasmonic environments: two-photon absorption and harmonic generation

JW Haus, D de Ceglia, MA Vincenti, M Scalora - JOSA B, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We use a quantum mechanical approach to derive a set of linear and nonlinear quantum
conductivity coefficients for metal–insulator–metal structures with nanometer sized gaps …

Nanowire metal-insulator-metal plasmonic devices

JW Haus, L Li, N Katte, C Deng… - ICPS 2013 …, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
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Nanowire metal-insulator-metal plasmonic devices Joseph Haus, Li Li, Nkorni Katte, Cong …

[图书][B] Antenna-coupled unbiased detectors for LW-IR regime

BN Tiwari - 2011 - search.proquest.com
Abstract At room temperature (300K), the electromagnetic (EM) radiation emitted by humans
and other living beings peaks mostly in the long-wavelength infrared (LW-IR) regime. And …