Tunable antenna-coupled metal-oxide-metal (MOM) uncooled IR detector (Invited Paper)

Esfandiari, Pashang; Bernstein, Gary H.; Fay, Patrick; Porod, Wolfgang; Rakos, Balázs; Zarándy, Ákos; Berland, Brian; Bölöni, Ladislau; Boreman, Glenn D.; Lail, Brian A.; Monacelli, Brian; Weeks, Arthur R.

doi:10.1117/12.606874

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“…Various research groups have investigated thinfilm based MIM diodes for IR detection [1,3,4,[8][9][10][11] and found that MIM diodes with high enough work function difference electrodes exhibit non-linear current-voltage (I-V) behaviour that can produce rectification. They have been fabricated with a wide variety of material combinations like, Al-Al 2 O 3 -Al [12], Cr-CrO-Au [9,13], Al-Al 2 O 3 -Ag [14], Nb-NbOx-Au [13], NiNiO-Au, Ag, Ni, Pt, [4,11,15,16]. In this work Ni-NiO-Cr MIM diodes were fabricated on a Si substrate using standard IC processing technology to exhibit a more pronounced level of non-linearity and asymmetry.…”

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confidence: 99%

Design and development of batch fabricatable metal–insulator–metal diode and microstrip slot antenna as rectenna elements

Krishnan

Rosa

Stefanakos

et al. 2008

Sensors and Actuators A: Physical

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Design and development of batch fabricatable metal–insulator–metal diode and microstrip slot antenna as rectenna elements

Krishnan

Rosa

Stefanakos

et al. 2008

Sensors and Actuators A: Physical

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“…The highest sensitivity is 31 V −1 at 80 mV, which is the highest ever reported for a thin-film MIM tunneling diode. The closest reported value is disclosed in [11]: 13 V −1 . The measurement data, polynomial fitting, and sensitivity of the highest sensitivity diode are shown in Fig.…”

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confidence: 85%

New Process Development for Planar-Type CIC Tunneling Diodes

Choi

Yesilköy

Chryssis

et al. 2010

IEEE Electron Device Lett.

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A planar-type conductor-insulator-conductor tunneling diode is developed using a boiling water process for surface oxidation. First, microsized bow-tie patterns are transferred on a doped polysilicon layer using e-beam lithography. After reactive ion etching, the polysilicon bow-tie pattern has a very narrow knot between two triangles. Using a buffered oxide etchant (BOE) solution, hydrogen silsesquioxane patterns and native oxide layer are etched. The knot is oxidized by a boiling water oxidation process. By repeating the BOE etch and oxidation, the bow-tie patterns are transformed into tunneling diodes with a very thin oxide barrier separating two polysilicon conductors. We show that the resulting structures follow the Simmons tunneling current-voltage relationship after boiling. Moreover, a high sensitivity of 31 V −1 is achieved at a bias voltage of 80 mV.Index Terms-Bow-tie antenna, metal-insulator-metal (MIM) diode, optical antenna, surface plasmon, surface plasmon resonance (SPR), tunneling diode.

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“…However due to a lack of asymmetry, the second Ni electrode must be replaced with a metal of different work function in order to achieve rectification. This has been investigated by Hoofring et al [51], Krishnan et al [52,53] and Esfandiari et al [54] with Au, Cr and Pt contacts respectively, all displaying good asymmetrical I-V response. Other structures of dissimilar materials which have shown promising results are Al/Al2O3/Ni [55,56], Nb/Nb2O5/Pt [57,58,59], ZrCuAlNi/Al2O3/Al [60] and also Nb/Nb2O5/Ag [61].…”

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Nano Energy Harvesting with Plasmonic Nano-Antennas: A review of MID-IR Rectenna and Application

Citroni

Leggieri²,

Passi³

et al. 2017

AEM

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Drones, a technical nickname for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining more and more interest and popularity. Supported by the miniaturization and cost reduction of electronic components, a new class of UAVs called Nano-air vehicles or NAVs represent the future technology for indoor and outdoor mission. One of the main considerations when building or buying a drone is the flight time and range. The flight time is nowadays a drawback for miniature unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It is limited to a few minutes before requiring a forced recovery to replace exhausted batteries. Currently the batteries are the dominant technology, which possess limited operation in time and energy. The real viability to extending flight time (FT) of NAVs is possibly exploring new and more disruptive alternative solution able either to recharge a battery, or even to directly power the NAVs during the flight. A Plasmonic Nano Energy harvester is an attractive technology to extending the FT extracting the energy in mid-infrared radiation emitted from Earth's surface with Rectenna tuned to mid-infrared wavelengths (7 -14 ) m µ with a peak wavelength of about10 m µ . In this review the concepts emerging from this work identify and suggest how this novel harvester can constantly supply these flying objects for the whole day.

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Tunable antenna-coupled metal-oxide-metal (MOM) uncooled IR detector (Invited Paper)

Cited by 46 publications

References 9 publications

Design and development of batch fabricatable metal–insulator–metal diode and microstrip slot antenna as rectenna elements

Design and development of batch fabricatable metal–insulator–metal diode and microstrip slot antenna as rectenna elements

New Process Development for Planar-Type CIC Tunneling Diodes

Nano Energy Harvesting with Plasmonic Nano-Antennas: A review of MID-IR Rectenna and Application

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