Yan Wu

Dr. Yan Wu


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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15 May 2026 in Nanomaterials
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YZYuanyuan Zhou
Yuanyuan Zhou
YWYan Wu
Yan Wu
QYQuan Yang
Quan Yang
WCWeiran Cai
Weiran Cai
XZXiaowei Zhang
Xiaowei Zhang
YZYuda Zhao
Yuda Zhao
Reconfigurable radio frequency (RF) attenuators are critical passive components for 5G-Advanced and emerging 6G wireless systems. Conventional tunable attenuators rely on solid-state switches combined with fixed resistor networks, which suffer from unavoidable static power consumption and severe parasitic degradation at high frequencies. Here, we systematically demonstrate HfO2-based non-volatile memristors as RF switches with tunable ON-state resistance (RON), enabling a switching-attenuation-integrated multistate attenuator. The fabricated Au/HfO2/Ag devices exhibit stable bipolar resistive switching with an ON/OFF ratio exceeding 109, reliable retention of 105 s, and programmable RON continuously tuned from 5.8 Ω to 197.5 Ω. On-wafer RF characterizations from 10 MHz to 43.5 GHz reveal low insertion loss (−0.53 dB), high isolation (−26.8 dB), and clear scaling laws governing the effects of device geometry and RON on RF performance. Leveraging these unique characteristics, we propose a symmetric π-type programmable all-memristor attenuator architecture with a cascaded 2-unit configuration. The design achieves 12 discrete attenuation levels from 2 dB to 24 dB, a return loss better than 10 dB across the full band, and zero static power consumption without additional passive components or bias networks. This work establishes the fundamental material-device-RF performance relationship in HfO2-based RF switches and provides a compact, low-power, and highly integrable solution for next-generation reconfigurable RF front-ends.