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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ultra-high-speed metal-insulator device technology (solid-state electronic devices without semiconductors!)Lab Publications“Efficiency limits of rectenna solar cells: Theory of broadband ...

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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 ...

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.