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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2015
R.a. Miller Industries, Inc., Grand Haven, MI (US);
John T. Apostolos, Lyndeborough, NH (US);
Patricia Bodan, Amherst, NH (US);
William Mouyos, Windham, NH (US);
Milton Feng, Champaign, IL (US);
Benjamin McMahon, Nottingham, NH (US);
Paul Gili, Mason, NH (US);
R.A. Miller Industries, Inc., Grand Haven, MI (US);
Abstract
A rectifier comprising a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structure. The insulator may be a native oxide with an adjacent layer of graphene. In one implementation, the rectifier is used in an electromagnetic energy collector consisting of a planar waveguide formed of multiple material layers having at least two different dielectric constants. MIM rectifiers are aligned with mirrors are formed within the waveguide core. In some arrangements, a plurality of MIM rectifiers are disposed in a column or 3D array beneath each mirror.