Lateral nanoscale field emission comb for frequency mixing
Abstract
Nanoscale field emission devices are promising candidates to design high-frequency electronics due to the lack of scattering in the vacuum channel that enables ballistic transport. In-plane devices are relatively easy to fabricate with current fabrication techniques and offer sub-fF capacitance. In this work, the characteristics of lateral gold multi-tip field emission arrays are studied. Vacuum gaps between the electrodes of 30 nm are fabricated, which allow < 10 V operation. The effect of number of emitting tips on measured current is investigated. By taking advantage of the strong non-linearity in the emission characteristic, frequency mixing in the MHz range is also demonstrated.
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Acknowledgement
We wish to acknowledge the support of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for lending us vital measurement equipment.
Contributions
Lucia Belen De Rose: Conceptualization (equal); Formal analysis (lead); Investigation (lead); Methodology (lead); Software (equal); Writing – original draft (lead); Writing – review & editing (lead). William Maxwell Jones: Conceptualization (equal); Funding acquisition (lead); Investigation (supporting); Methodology (supporting); Software (equal); Writing – review & editing (supporting). Axel Scherer: Funding acquisition (supporting); Supervision (lead); Writing – review & editing (supporting).
Data Availability
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Conflict of Interest
The authors have no conflicts to disclose.
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