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Air Stable Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide Diodes with a 6.4 GHz Extrinsic Cutoff Frequency Fabricated Using Adhesion Lithography

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Abstract

High speed rectifiers that can be fabricated at low cost whilst still maintaining a high performance are of interest for wireless communication applications. In this letter amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO) has been used with adhesion lithography (a technique to create asymmetric planar electrodes separated by a nanogap) to fabricate high performance Schottky diode rectifiers. The diode area and junction capacitance can be significantly reduced using this technique, improving device cut-off frequencies. Devices of different widths have been fabricated showing rectification ratios between 103-104. Capacitances measured for devices of various sizes were all on the order of 0.1 pF. By applying ac signals to the diode and measuring the output voltage across a load resistor a cut-off frequency was found. a IGZO diodes with an extrinsic cut-off frequency of 6.4 GHz at a 15 dBM input power have been realized. The devices also show good air stability with little change in current-voltage characteristics after 12 months.

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Keywords

UHF technology, Schottky diode, rectifiers, large scale fabrication, nanogap electrodes, nanolithography

Journal Title

IEEE Electron Device Letters

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Journal ISSN

0741-3106
1558-0563

Volume Title

41

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K03099X/1)