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Ultra-high-speed metal-insulator device technology (solid-state electronic devices without semiconductors!)

Lab Publications

• “Efficiency limits of rectenna solar cells: Theory of broadband photon-assisted tunneling," S. Joshi and G. Moddel, Applied Physics Letters, 102, 083901 (2013).

• “Quantum theory of operation for rectenna solar cells,” S. Grover, S. Joshi and G. Moddel, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 46, 135106 (2013).

• "Engineering the current–voltage characteristics of metal–insulator–metal diodes using double-insulator tunnel barriers," S. Grover and G. Moddel,����Solid State Electron., 67, 94-99 (2012).��See below for free access to the metal-insulator diode current voltage simulator.

• "Applicability of Metal/Insulator/Metal (MIM) Diodes to Solar Rectennas," S. Grover and G. Moddel, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 1, 78-83 (2011).

• “Traveling-Wave Metal/Insulator/Metal Diodes for Improved Infrared Bandwidth and Efficiency of Antenna-Coupled Rectifiers,” S. Grover,����O.��Dmitriyeva,����M. J. Estes,����and G. Moddel,������IEEE Trans. Nanotechnology, 99, 716-722 (2010).

• “Surface plasmon devices,” Michael J. Estes and Garret Moddel, U.S. Patent No. 7,177,515 (2007).

• “Interconnected High Speed Electron Tunneling Devices,” Michael J. Estes and Garret Moddel, U.S. Patent No. 7,126,151 (2006).��

• “Terahertz Interconnect System and Applications,” Michael J. Estes and Garret Moddel, U.S. Patent No. 6,967,347 (2005).

• "Macroelectronics: Perspectives on Technology and Applications, " R.��Reuss, with G. Moddel, et al., Proc. IEEE 93 (7), 1239-1256 (2005).

• "Detectors at the Intersection of Photons and Electromagnetic Fields or, Where Einstein Meets Maxwell," invited paper, B. Eliasson and G. Moddel,����Spring Meeting of the Materials Research Society,����San Francisco,����March 28-April 1,����2005.

• "Terahertz device integrated antenna for use in resonant and non-resonant����modes and method," "Manoja D. Weiss, Blake J. Eliasson and Garret Moddel, U.S. Patent No. 6,835,949 (2004).

• “High speed electron tunneling device and applications,” G. Moddel, and B. J. Eliasson, U.S. Patent No. 6,756,649,����issued 2004.

• Rectenna solar cells: “Metal-oxide electron tunneling device for solar energy conversion,” B. J. Eliasson, and G. Moddel, U.S. Patent No. 6,534,784,����issued 2003.

• Rectenna solar cells:��Metal-Insulator Diodes for Solar Energy Conversion, Blake J. Eliasson, PhD Thesis, University of Colorado,����2001.

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