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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"metal-insulator-metal"”.
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Development of antenna-coupled metal-insulator-metal diodes for infrared detection
… room temperature in this band. Antenna-coupled metal-insulator-metal (ACMIM) diodes are a leading candidate due to their high speed and potential manufacturability on Si substrates. In this work, Ni-NiO-Ni ACMIM diodes are fabricated using a two-step lithography process and an oxygen plasma …
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Atomic vapor depositions of metal insulator metal capacitors : investigation, development and integration
Metall-Isolator-Metall (MIM) Kondensatoren gehören zu den wichtigsten passiven Komponenten in Hochfrequenzbauelementen und Schaltkreisen für Analog/Mischsignale. Unabhängig von der Anwendung beanspruchen MIM-Kondensatoren bis zu 50 % der Chipfläche. Dies unterstützt maßgeblich die Chipfläche zu …
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High-K Dielectrics in Metal Insulator Metal (MIM) Capacitors for RF Applications
… solutions to address the challenges faced by the metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor technology for the radio frequency (RF) and analog-mixed signal (AMS) applications. The MIM capacitors for the RF and AMS applications have requirements of high capacitance densities and low quadratic voltage …
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An investigation of high-k materials in metal-insulator-metal capacitor structures
Metal insulator metal (MIM) capacitors are vital components of many devices such as communication band beamformers, medical, automotive, RF IC’s and memory applications. Current MIM capacitors technology utilises low dielectric constant (k) materials (k~3.9 - 7), these materials achieve the …
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High-bias studies on metal-insulator-metal and metal-insulator-semiconductor tunnel junctions
… transition region"" separating the metal and the oxide. The aluminum-aluminum oxide interface is adequately characterized by a shallow impurity band. The high-bias behavior of silicon junctions is qualitatively described in terms of tunneling via the previously observed trapping …
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Microplasma Transistor With Quasi Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (mos)/metal-Insulator-Metal (Mim) Electron Emitters
Modeling of these devices entailed solving the differential form of Poisson's equation, subject to particle flux continuity of the cathode. Comparison of the model predictions with experimental estimates of the sheath potential shows agreement between the two to within 5% over the entire range in …
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All printed bistable reflective displays : printable electrophoretic ink and all printed metal-insulator-metal diodes
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1998.
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Designing Enhanced Nonlinearity in Plasmonic Devices with Epsilon-Near-Zero Films
… waveguide geometries are examined: a hybrid metal-insulator-metal plasmonic slab waveguide incorporating an ultrathin indium tin oxide epsilon-near-zero layer (5–50 nm), and a dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguide. Finite element method simulations were performed in COMSOL …
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Development of nanoplasmonic devices for biosensing applications
… with the plasmonic nanocup array and adds an insulator layer followed by a second gold layer, such that the final device consists of a metal-insulator-metal cavity embedded in the 3D nanocup array. The spectral properties of this device include a sensitive, on-resonance, relative change in …
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Enhanced Rainbow Trapping in Width-graded Chirped MIM Nano-gratings for High-sensitivity Multiwavelength Bio-molecular Detection
… grating. Within the framework of width-graded metal-insulator-metal (MIM) nano-gratings, mode confinement and waveguiding result in multiwavelength light localization provided conditions for adiabatic mode transformation are satisfied. Maximal field enhancement is attained by ensuring adiabatic …
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Dynamic Metasurfaces for Advanced Applications
… phase change materials. Second, traditional metal-insulator-metal metasurfaces with advanced capabilities are developed. We utilize the electronic compatibility of the MIM system to incorporate spatio-temporal modulation, enabling a new class of nonreciprocal reflectarrays. Finally we present …
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Designing plasmonic structures
… study of light near micro- or nano-fabricated metallic surfaces, play a major role in all structures in this thesis. An effective work-flow in designing "plasmonic" structures is detailed. Various applications are then discussed: (1) Enhanced transmission through subwavelength apertures in …
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Electrical characterization of plasma-enhanced Cvd silicon nitride dielectric on copper
In this work, a novel metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor process is introduced and integrated in a Copper Interconnect technology, whose smallest feature size is 0.18mum process, which has good yield, reliability and repeatability. The MIM uses a one-photomask process and hence is termed as the …
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Sub-10-nanometre metallic gaps for use in molecular electronics
… fabrication process to create sub-10 nanometre metallic gaps and the subsequent use of the gaps to study the electronics of nanocrystals and molecules. A complete picture of the success of the process required both examination by scanning electron microscopy as well as probing the current …
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Electron beam lithography for nano-antenna fabrication
… that Cr would be a better choice as a metallic coating as compared with Cu. Furthermore for metal deposition methods, sputter coating would be a better method in comparison with PVD, because it gives a less damaged device during lift-off and also Cr's lift-off time is much less than …
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Development of Metal Halide Perovskites for Memristor Applications
… RS devices generally have a two-terminal metal-insulator-metal structure, where a variety of novel materials have been employed as the insulator layer. Among them, halide perovskites have drawn extensive attention owing to their superb physical and electronic properties, including …
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Development of Strontium Titanate Based Nanomaterials for Resistive Switching Applications
… switching device consists of a two-terminal metal-insulator-metal structure, in which metal oxide is widely employed as the insulator. Among a variety of metal oxides, SrTiO3 has attracted extensive attention owing to its superior physical and chemical properties. In this dissertation, novel …
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Metal-insulator-insulator-metal plasmonic waveguides and devices
Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) plasmonic waveguides have been proposed for highly integrated subwavelength structures. In this work, waveguiding and coupling of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) within finite planar MIM plasmonic waveguides are examined both theoretically and experimentally. Gain …
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