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It was found that the reduction of series resistance and parallel connection of diode and load tend to lead to the improvement of RF-to-DC conversion efficiency. Under direct irradiation from antenna-to-antenna method, the output voltage of 35 mV was still obtainable for the distance of 8 cm between both antennas in spite of large mismatch in the resonant frequency between the diode and the connected antenna. Higher output voltage in volt range is expected to be achievable for the well-matching condition. The proposed  on-chip AlGaAs\/GaAs HEMT Schottky diode and antenna seems to be a promising candidate to be used for application in proximity communication system as a wireless low power source as well as a highly sensitive RF detector.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s140203493","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,2,20]],"date-time":"2014-02-20T11:08:24Z","timestamp":1392894504000},"page":"3493-3505","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["RF-to-DC Characteristics of Direct Irradiated On-Chip Gallium Arsenide Schottky Diode and Antenna for Application in Proximity Communication System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Farahiyah","family":"Mustafa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor 81310, Malaysia"}]},{"given":"Abdul","family":"Hashim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur 54100, Malaysia"},{"name":"MIMOS Berhad, Technology Park Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 57000, Malaysia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,2,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"324","DOI":"10.1038\/nature10678","article-title":"Academic and industry research progress in germanium nanodevices","volume":"479","author":"Pillarisetty","year":"2011","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1142\/S1793292006000070","article-title":"Electrical transport properties and field effect transistors of carbon nanotubes","volume":"1","author":"Dai","year":"2006","journal-title":"Nano"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1780","DOI":"10.1109\/TED.2005.851840","article-title":"Control of threshold-voltage and short-channel effects in ultrathin strained-SOI CMOS devices","volume":"52","author":"Numata","year":"2005","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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