Abstract:
A method of fabricating a gate with a mini field plate includes forming a dielectric passivation layer over an epitaxy layer on a substrate, coating the dielectric passivation layer with a first resist layer, etching the first resist layer and the dielectric passivation layer to form a first opening in the dielectric passivation layer, removing the first resist layer; and forming a tri-layer gate having a gate foot in the first opening, the gate foot having a first width, a gate neck extending from the gate foot and extending for a length over the dielectric passivation layer on both sides of the first opening, the gate neck having a second width wider than the first width of the gate foot, and a gate head extending from the gate neck, the gate head having a third width wider than the second width of the gate neck.
Abstract:
A spatial light modulator cell and arrays of spatial light modulator cells are disclosed. The spatial light modulator cells can comprise a phase change material (PCM) having a first side and a second side; an optical reflector configured to reflect an optical beam passing from the first side to the second side; and a PCM heater thermal conductively coupled to the PCM, wherein thermal modulation of the PCM modulates a phase of the PCM which varies light transmission through the PCM. Methods of making spatial light modulator cells and arrays are also disclosed.
Abstract:
An optical apparatus may comprise: an electrically reconfigurable optical layer comprising at least one phase-change material, wherein an optical property of the phase-change material is reconfigurable by an electric field; an optically transparent top electrode and a bottom electrode, the top and bottom electrodes configured to apply the electric field to the electrically reconfigurable optical layer, wherein the electrically reconfigurable optical layer is disposed between the optically transparent top electrode and the bottom electrode; and a colossal-K dielectric layer disposed between the electrically reconfigurable optical layer and the bottom electrode. The phase-change material of the electrically reconfigurable optical layer may comprise phase-change nickelate or tungsten oxide. The phase-change material of the electrically reconfigurable optical layer may have a perovskite structure. The phase-change nickelate or tungsten oxide may enable to actuate large refractive index changes of more than 1 in infrared wavelength spectrums at high speeds of phase reconfiguration of more than 1 kHz by applying the electric field to the phase-change material.
Abstract:
A method for time interleaved writing includes providing a phase change material (PCM) array, the PCM array comprising a plurality of phase change material areas arranged in a two dimensional array having rows and columns, selecting PCM areas to configure, and configuring the selected PCM areas. Selecting PCM areas to configure includes selecting PCM areas to configure in both the row and column dimensions that are separated by at least two PCM areas that are not selected to be configured.
Abstract:
A device including a biopolymer membrane, a passivation layer on the biopolymer membrane, a graphene layer on the passivation layer, a source electrode on the graphene layer, and a drain electrode on the graphene layer, wherein the graphene layer extends between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
Abstract:
A switch includes an input port, an output port, a phase change material coupled between the input port and the output port, a heater, and a thermal dielectric layer in between the heater and the phase change material, and in contact with the heater and the phase change material. The thermal dielectric layer provides thermal conduction between the phase change material and the heater, and the thermal dielectric layer is nonmetallic and electrically non-conductive and includes polycrystalline AlN, diamond, or SiC.
Abstract:
A broadband linear amplifier including an input, a first distributed amplifier coupled to the input and having a bias for one of Class A or Class AB operation, the first distributed amplifier including a first plurality of field effect transistors and having a first output, a second distributed amplifier coupled to the input and having a bias for Class C operation, the second distributed amplifier including a second plurality of field effect transistors and having a second output, and a summed output coupled to the first output and the second output, wherein gate widths of the first plurality of field effect transistors monotonically decrease from the input to the first output, and wherein gate widths of the second plurality of field effect transistors monotonically decrease from the input to the second output.
Abstract:
A reconfigurable electro-magnetic tile includes a laser layer including a plurality of lasers, and a pixelated surface comprising a plurality of metal patches and a plurality of switches, wherein each respective switch of the plurality of switches is in a gap between a first respective metal patch and a second respective metal patch, wherein each respective switch is optically coupled to at least one respective laser of the plurality of lasers, and wherein each switch of the plurality of switches comprises a phase change material.
Abstract:
An apparatus, system, and/or method are described to enable optically transparent reconfigurable integrated electrical components, such as antennas and RF circuits to be integrated into an optically transparent host platform, such as glass. In one embodiment, an Ag NW film may be configured as a transparent conductor for antennas and/or as interconnects for passive circuit components, such as capacitors or resistors. Ag NW may also be used as transmission lines and/or interconnect overlays for devices. A graphene film may also be configured as active channel material for making active RF devices, such as amplifiers and switches.
Abstract translation:描述了一种装置,系统和/或方法,以实现光学透明的可重新配置的集成电组件,例如要集成到诸如玻璃的光学透明主机平台中的天线和RF电路。 在一个实施例中,Ag NW膜可以被配置为用于天线的透明导体和/或用作无源电路部件(例如电容器或电阻器)的互连。 Ag NW也可以用作设备的传输线和/或互连覆盖。 石墨烯膜还可以被配置为用于制造有源RF器件(例如放大器和开关)的有源沟道材料。
Abstract:
A reconfigurable optical frequency selective structure having embedded therein:
(a) an array of optical antennas for picking up propagating radiation in a visible or infrared frequency region and achieving preferential absorption of electromagnetic energy at a target wavelength k within the region, (b) an array of optical mesa structures of sub-wavelength scale including a phase-change material, the array of optical antennas being disposed atop the array of optical mesa structures respectively; (c) a metal ground plane disposed beneath the array of optical mesa structures, the array of optical mesa structures standing above the ground plane or an interfacial layer and being separated from one another to inhibit parasitic capacitance coupling therebetween; and (d) a plurality of heaters for selectively heating any one of the array of optical mesa structures to cause the phase change material in the selected optical mesa structure to change from an amorphous state, wherein the antenna atop the selected mesa structure is capacitively coupled to the metal ground plane, to a crystalline state wherein the antenna atop the selected mesa structure is electrically shunted to the ground plane via the selected mesa structure.