Bipolar transistor performances can be characterized by figures of merit such as cut-off frequency, maximum frequency of oscillation and Emitter Coupled Logic gate delay. We studied the required figures of merit for digital application and the effects of lateral and vertical scaling to the figures of merit of SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor. With lateral scaling, the width of emitter fin...

A new approach is introduced to significantly improve the performance of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems using low-dimensional thermal emitters and photovoltaic (PV) cells. By reducing the thickness of both the emitter and the PV cell, strong spectral selectivity in thermal emission and absorption can be achieved by confining photons in trapped waveguide modes inside the thin-films that act as...

The development of ion electrospray propulsion systems (iEPS) as integrated microelectromechanical systems (i.e. MEMS) effectively miniaturizes propulsion for nanosatellites. Current iEPS thrusters consist of arrays of ion emitters, with a thruster for CubeSat application consisting of hundreds of emitters on a 1 cm 2 package. As a consequence, the lower bound on the size of satellites incorpor...

The emitter series resistances (Rs,emi) can be extracted from experimentally measured JV curves using the two-light intensity method (TLIM) but it can also be calculated from the emitter geometry using analytical formulas and finally also computed with arbitrary precision using finite element simulation (FES). On the one hand formulas and FES consider Rs,emi as distributed, on the other hand th...

Electric field distribution and field emission current over the surface of point (sphere-on-cone) and wedge-shaped defects on a plane substrate are studied. It is found emission current due to wedge-shaped defects is more sensitive to emitter-anode distance than in case of point conical defects. This property is consequence of greater emission area of wedge-shaped defects and has important prac...

We report the use of the organic crystal DAST as a freely propagating electromagnetic-wave sensor at terahertz (THz) frequency. We also report the result of using a DAST crystal as a mid-IR THz emitter. Compared with the optical rectification from our best ZnTe emitter, that obtained by use of DAST demonstrates a sixfold enhancement of radiation at 7-20 THz.

We show that a three-level lambda quantum emitter with equal spontaneous emission rates on both optically active transitions can absorb an incident single-photon pulse with a probability approaching unity, provided that the focused light profile matches that of the emitter dipole emission. Even with realistic focusing geometries, our results could find applications in long-distance entanglement...

The notion of a spherical angular spectrum leads to the decomposition of the field amplitude on a spherical emitter into a sum of spherical waves that converge onto the Fourier sphere of the emitter. Unlike the usual angular spectrum, the spherical angular spectrum is propagated as the field amplitude, in a way that can be expressed by a fractional order Fourier transform.

A new system for CO2 measurement (0-100%) by based on a paired emitter-detector diode arrangement as a colorimetric detection system is described. Two different configurations were tested: configuration 1 (an opposite side configuration) where a secondary inner-filter effect accounts for CO2 sensitivity. This configuration involves the absorption of the phosphorescence emitted from a CO2-insens...

The Schottky electron emitter is the most frequently used electron source in electron microscopes. A suppressor electrode around the emitter is usually employed to prevent emission from the shank of the cathode. A concept of operating the Schottky emitter without the suppressor electrode is proposed with the aim of lowering the potential of the extractor electrode. Simulation results show that ...