TY - JOUR
T1 - 100 GHz zinc oxide Schottky diodes processed from solution on a wafer scale
AU - Georgiadou, Dimitra G
AU - Semple, James
AU - Sagade, Abhay A.
AU - Forstén, Henrik
AU - Rantakari, Pekka
AU - Lin, Yen-Hung
AU - Alkhalil, Feras
AU - Seitkhan, Akmaral
AU - Loganathan, Kalaivanan
AU - Faber, Hendrik
AU - Anthopoulos, Thomas D.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-30
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079
Acknowledgements: D.G.G., J.S. and T.D.A. acknowledge financial support from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement 706707, the European Research Council (ERC) project AMPRO under grant no. 280221, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant no. EP/P505550/1 and the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large Area Electronics (CIM-LAE) grant no. EP/K03099X/1. A.S., K.L., H.F. and T.D.A. acknowledge support by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under award no. OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079. A.A.S. thanks SERB for an Early Research Career Award (ECR/2017/1562) and SRM IST for financial support. We also thank S. Kano for helpful discussion on the nanogap size analysis.
PY - 2020/10/19
Y1 - 2020/10/19
N2 - Inexpensive radio-frequency devices that can meet the ultrahigh-frequency needs of fifth- and sixth-generation wireless telecommunication networks are required. However, combining high performance with cost-effective scalable manufacturing has proved challenging. Here, we report the fabrication of solution-processed zinc oxide Schottky diodes that can operate in microwave and millimetre-wave frequency bands. The fully coplanar diodes are prepared using wafer-scale adhesion lithography to pattern two asymmetric metal electrodes separated by a gap of around 15 nm, and are completed with the deposition of a zinc oxide or aluminium-doped ZnO layer from solution. The Schottky diodes exhibit a maximum intrinsic cutoff frequency in excess of 100 GHz, and when integrated with other passive components yield radio-frequency energy-harvesting circuits that are capable of delivering output voltages of 600 mV and 260 mV at 2.45 GHz and 10 GHz, respectively.
AB - Inexpensive radio-frequency devices that can meet the ultrahigh-frequency needs of fifth- and sixth-generation wireless telecommunication networks are required. However, combining high performance with cost-effective scalable manufacturing has proved challenging. Here, we report the fabrication of solution-processed zinc oxide Schottky diodes that can operate in microwave and millimetre-wave frequency bands. The fully coplanar diodes are prepared using wafer-scale adhesion lithography to pattern two asymmetric metal electrodes separated by a gap of around 15 nm, and are completed with the deposition of a zinc oxide or aluminium-doped ZnO layer from solution. The Schottky diodes exhibit a maximum intrinsic cutoff frequency in excess of 100 GHz, and when integrated with other passive components yield radio-frequency energy-harvesting circuits that are capable of delivering output voltages of 600 mV and 260 mV at 2.45 GHz and 10 GHz, respectively.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/665719
UR - http://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-020-00484-7
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85092725771&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41928-020-00484-7
DO - 10.1038/s41928-020-00484-7
M3 - Article
SN - 2520-1131
JO - Nature Electronics
JF - Nature Electronics
ER -