Metal–insulator–metal electrostatic nanocapacitors can be fabricated in anodic aluminum-oxide nanopores using atomic layer deposition. This approach gives a planar capacitance of up to ∼100 ...

Electronics beginners are taught the basic canonical capacitor: two metal plates and an insulator separating them. This is enough to understand the theory of capacitor operation, but there were ...

Austin, Texas – IBM Microelectronics is about to roll out a high-k dielectric metal-insulator-metal capacitor based on tantalum pentoxide. The MIM capacitor, which is due for launch in the third ...

The high density metal-insulator-metal capacitor process provides capacitance values of 4, 6, 8, and 10fF/um(2). This process replaces the industry standard silicon nitride insulator layer with a high ...

The discovery, just reported online in the professional journal Advanced Materials, outlines the creation for the first time of a high-performance "metal-insulator-metal" diode. "Researchers have ...

From metal to insulator and back again Date: April 22, 2015 Source: Carnegie Institution Summary: Metals are compounds that are capable of conducting the flow of electrons that make up an electric ...

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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 ...

Metal to insulator transition understood Date: September 12, 2016 Source: Universiteit van Amsterdam (UVA) Summary: Physicists have, for the first time, succeeded in directly visualizing on small ...

Hemley and Naumov demonstrated that for a metal to become an insulator, these reduced-spacing overlaps must be organized in a specific kind of asymmetry that was not previously recognized.