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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2009
Erik M Dahlstrom, Burlington, VT (US);
Alvin J Joseph, Williston, VT (US);
Robert M Rassel, Colchester, VT (US);
David C Sheridan, Williston, VT (US);
Erik M Dahlstrom, Burlington, VT (US);
Alvin J Joseph, Williston, VT (US);
Robert M Rassel, Colchester, VT (US);
David C Sheridan, Williston, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and heterostructure barrier varactor (HBV) diodes optimized for application with frequency multipliers at providing outputs at submillimeter wave frequencies and above. The HBV diodes include a silicon-containing substrate, an electrode over the silicon-containing substrate, and one or more heterojunction quantum wells of alternating layers of Si and SiGe of one or more electrodes of the diode. Each SiGe quantum well preferably has a floating SiGe layer between adjacent SiGe gradients followed by adjacent Si layers, such that, a single homogeneous structure is provided characterized by having no distinct separations. The plurality of Si/SiGe heterojunction quantum wells may be symmetric or asymmetric.