Emission characteristics of photoconductive antennas based on low-temperature-grown GaAs and semi-insulating GaAs

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 7853-7859

  Tani, Masahiko ^a   Matsuura, Shuji ^a   Sakai, Kiyomi ^a   Nakashima, Shin Ichi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carrier screening effect; Low temperature grown GaAs; Photoconductive antenna; Semiinsulating GaAs; Terahertz radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000418477     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007853     Document Type: Article

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