Effects of transmission line geometry on traveling-wave metal-insulator-metal rectenna infrared detectors

Pelz, B.; Armanious, M.; Moddel, G.

doi:10.1063/1.5083154

Title: Effects of transmission line geometry on traveling-wave metal-insulator-metal rectenna infrared detectors

Journal Article · Fri Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Journal of Applied Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5083154· OSTI ID:1613685

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Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
RedWave Energy, Inc., Boulder, CO (United States)

The transmission line impedance of traveling-wave diodes can circumvent resistance-capacitance time constant limitations of metal-insulator-metal diodes in rectennas operating at optical frequencies. We performed three-dimensional simulations of a traveling-wave diode rectenna using a linear finite-element electromagnetic solver. We develop a method to analyze metal-insulator-metal traveling-wave rectennas by using the field profiles from the linear finite-element solver and accounting for the nonlinear current-voltage characteristics during postprocessing. The traveling-wave diode length produces resonance at half surface plasmon wavelength intervals. With optimized cross section and length parameters, we observe a peak system responsivity of 239μA/W and a detectivity of 5.7×10⁴Jones.

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Research Organization:: RedWave Energy, Inc., Boulder, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)

Grant/Contract Number:: AR0000676

OSTI ID:: 1613685

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1549197

Journal Information:: Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 126, Issue 6; ISSN 0021-8979

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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