Efficiency of broadband terahertz rectennas based on self-switching nanodiodes

Edgar Briones; Irving E. Cortes Mestizo; Joel Briones; Ravindranath Droopad; Leticia L. Espinosa-Vega; Heber Vilchis; Victor H. Mendez-Garcia

doi:10.1117/1.JPE.7.025001

27 April 2017 Efficiency of broadband terahertz rectennas based on self-switching nanodiodes

Edgar Briones, Irving E. Cortes Mestizo, Joel Briones, Ravindranath Droopad, Leticia L. Espinosa-Vega, Heber Vilchis, Victor H. Mendez-Garcia

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Journal of Photonics for Energy, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 025001 (April 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.7.025001

Abstract

The authors investigate the efficiency of a series of broadband rectennas designed to harvest the free-propagating electromagnetic energy at terahertz frequencies. We analyze by simulations the case of self-complementary square- and Archimedean-spiral antennas coupled to L-shaped self-switching diodes (L-SSDs). First, the geometry (i.e., the width and length of the channel) of the L-SSD was optimized to obtain a remarkable diode-like I–V response. Subsequently, the optimized L-SSD geometry was coupled to both types of spiral antennas and their characteristic impedance was studied. Finally, the energy conversion efficiency was evaluated for both rectenna architectures.

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Edgar Briones, Irving E. Cortes Mestizo, Joel Briones, Ravindranath Droopad, Leticia L. Espinosa-Vega, Heber Vilchis, and Victor H. Mendez-Garcia "Efficiency of broadband terahertz rectennas based on self-switching nanodiodes," Journal of Photonics for Energy 7(2), 025001 (27 April 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.7.025001

Received: 16 December 2016; Accepted: 31 March 2017; Published: 27 April 2017

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