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AIP ADVANCES
Volume 5, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4936792
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- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) Mexico [CVU-40859, 387856, CeMIESol 22, 255489]
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In this letter, self-switching nanochannels have been proposed as an enabling technology for energy gathering in the terahertz (THz) regime. Such devices combine their diode-like behavior and high-speed of operation in order to generate DC electrical power from high-frequency signals. By using finite-element simulations, we have improved the sensitivity of L-shaped and V-shaped nanochannels based on InAlAs/InGaAs samples. Since those devices combine geometrical effects with their rectifying properties at zero-bias, we have improved their performance by optimizing their shape. Results show nominal sensitivities at zero-bias in the order of 40 V-1 and 20 V-1, attractive values for harvesting applications with square-law rectifiers. (C) 2015 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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