Adhesion lithography offers to fabrication of coplanar asymmetric nanogap electrodes with a low-cost and facile process. In this study, a gate-tunable diode with coplanar asymmetric nanogap is fabricated using adhesion lithography. A fluoropolymer material is introduced to the adhesion lithography process to ensure a manufacturing patterning process yield as high as 96.7%. The asymmetric electrodes formed a built-in potential, leading to rectifying behavior. The coplanar electrode structure allowed the use of a gate electrode in vertical contact with the channel, resulting in gate-tunable diode characteristics. The nanoscale channel induced a high current density (3.38 × 10 A∙cm ), providing a high rectification ratio (1.67 × 10 A∙A ). This rectifier diode is confirmed to operate with pulsed input signals and suggests the gate-tunability of nanogap diodes.
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