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Schottky diode

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Polarization-enhanced GaN Schottky barrier diodes: Ultra-thin InGaN for high breakdown voltage and low Ron

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Alessandro Floriduz, Zheng Hao

In this work, we present a concept that leverages the strong piezoelectric polarization field in InGaN, which counteracts the external electric field at reverse bias. We show that despite the smaller InGaN band-gap and lower critical electric field, its st ...

2024

Impact of beam-coupling impedance on the Schottky spectrum of bunched beam

Tatiana Pieloni, Nicolas Frank Mounet, Christophe Emmanuel R. Lannoy

The Schottky monitors of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can be used for non-invasive beam diagnostics to estimate various bunch characteristics, such as tune, chromaticity, bunch profile or synchrotron frequency distribution. However, collective effects, ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

SPAD Developed in 55 nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS Technology Achieving Near 90% Peak PDP

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Francesco Gramuglia, Myung Jae Lee, Ekin Kizilkan, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Won Yong Ha

We present a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) developed in 55 nm bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology, which achieves high photon detection probability (PDP) while its breakdown voltage is lower than 20 V. To enhance the PDP performance, the SPAD junctio ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

A thermotropic liquid crystal enables efficient and stable perovskite solar modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Bin Ding, Yong Ding

Perovskite solar cells have seen impressive progress in performance and stability, yet maintaining efficiency while scaling area remains a challenge. Here we find that additives commonly used to passivate large-area perovskite films often co-precipitate du ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Demonstration of a Plasmonic Nonlinear Pseudodiode

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri, Andrei Kiselev, Sergejs Boroviks

We demonstrate a nonlinear plasmonic metasurface that exhibits strongly asymmetric second-harmonic generation: nonlinear scattering is efficient upon excitation in one direction, and it is substantially suppressed when the excitation direction is reversed, ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Enablers for Overcurrent Capability of Silicon-Carbide-Based Power Converters: An Overview

Elison de Nazareth Matioli

With the increase in penetration of power electronic converters in the power systems, a demand for overcurrent/ overloading capability has risen for the fault clearance duration. This article gives an overview of the limiting factors and the recent technol ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Method for operating a frequency agile tunable self-injection locking laser system and self-injection locking laser system

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Grigorii Likhachev

The invention relates to a Method for operating a frequency agile tunable self-injection locking laser system being formed by a laser device coupled to at least one optical resonator, wherein a diode current of a laser diode of the laser device is controll ...

2023

Charge sensing properties ofmonolithic CMOS pixel sensors fabricated in a 65 nm technology

Francesco Piro

In this work the initial performance studies of the first small monolithic pixel sensors dedicated to charged particle detection, called CE-65, fabricated in the 65nm TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Company are presented. The tested prototypes comprise m ...

ELSEVIER2022

Modeling the electrical characteristic of InGaN/GaN blue-violet LED structure under electrical stress

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Camille Haller

The role of deep defects and their physical origin in InGaN/GaN LED are still widely investigated and debated, in particular their impact on the electrical and optical characteristics and on the reliability of the device. In this paper we evaluate the elec ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Electric metal contacts to monolayer blue phosphorus: electronic and chemical properties

Xiao Zhou

The contact nature when monolayer blue phosphorus (blueP) interfaces with three transition metal electrodes (i. e., Pd, Ir, and Pt) was unraveled by the ab initio density functional theory calculations. Specifically, n-type Schottky contact is observed for ...

ELSEVIER2022

Electron Emission Regimes of Planar Nano Vacuum Emitters

Yujia Yang, Alberto Nardi

Recent advancements in nanofabrication have enabled the creation of vacuum electronic devices with nanoscale free-space gaps. These nanoelectronic devices promise the benefits of cold-field emission and transport through free space, such as high nonlineari ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Upgraded CMS Fast Beam Condition Monitor for LHC Run 3 Online Luminosity and Beam Induced Background Measurements

The fast Beam Condition Monitor (BCM1F) for the CMS experiment at the LHC was upgraded for precision luminosity measurement in the demanding conditions foreseen for LHC Run3. BCM1F has been rebuilt with new silicon diodes, produced on the CMS Phase 2 Outer ...

2022

Generation of Optical Frequency Combs in an Optical Microresonator Pumped by a 780-nm Laser Diode in Self-Injection Locking Regime

Andrey Voloshin

Experimental data for the generation of optical frequency combs in magnesium fluoride microcavities with whispering gallery modes at 780 nm are presented. This wavelength corresponds to the normal group velocity dispersion for pumping by a laser diode oper ...

2022

p-GaN field plate for low leakage current in lateral GaN Schottky barrier diodes

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Luca Nela, Catherine Erine

High-voltage gallium nitride Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) suffer from large off-state leakage current, which further degrades during operation at high temperatures and limits the device blocking capabilities. The key to achieving low off-state leakage is ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2021

GaN vertical power devices on silicon substrates

Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar

Gallium Nitride (GaN) is a wonder material which has widely transformed the world by enabling energy-efficient white light-emitting diodes. Over the past decade, GaN has also emerged as one of the most promising materials for developing power devices which ...

EPFL2021

Quasi-vertical GaN-on-Si reverse blocking power MOSFETs

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili, Chao Liu, Alessandro Floriduz

We demonstrate quasi-vertical reverse blocking (RB) MOSFETs on 6.7 mu m thick GaN grown on a 6 inch Si substrate by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. The RB capability was achieved by replacing the ohmic drain with a quasi-vertical Schottky drain, re ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

AlGaN/GaN Nanowires: from Electron Transport to RF Applications

Giovanni Santoruvo

Gallium Nitride (GaN) and all III-Nitride compounds have revolutionized the world with the development of the blue light emitting diode (LED). In addition, GaN-based epi-structures, such as AlGaN/GaN, enable the fabrication of high electron mobility transi ...

EPFL2020

Deexcitation Characterization for Power Supply Protection in DC Shipboard Power Systems

Drazen Dujic, Seongil Kim

The deexcitation of a synchronous machine has been used for the protection of the power supply based on a diode rectifier in marine dc power distribution networks. The fault current from the generator can be eliminated with the protection method utilizing ...

IEEE2020

Protection Coordination in Marine DC Power Distribution Networks

Seongil Kim

The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, energy storage systems (ESSs), and DC loads has opened the door to DC technology to pave its way into future grids. The shift has been more obvious in the marine domain supported by track records of i ...

EPFL2020

Output-Capacitance Hysteresis Losses of Field-Effect Transistors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Luca Nela, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Georgios Kampitsis

Resonant-type power converters are supposed to generate zero switching losses during soft-switching operation. In recent research, unexpected switching losses were reported in these converters, which were attributed to a large-signal hysteresis observed in ...

IEEE2020