Structure-sensitive design for wider tunable operation of terahertz plasmon-resonant photomixer

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E89-C, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 985-992

  Hanabe, Mitsuhiro ^a,b   Nishimura, Takuya ^a,b   Miyamoto, Masaki ^a   Otsuji, Taiichi ^b   Sano, Eiichi ^c  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grating; HEMT; Photomixer; Plasmon resonance; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

PHOTOMIXERS; PLASMON RESONANCE; PLASMON RESONANT PHOTOMIXERS (PRX); TERAHERTZ;

GATES (TRANSISTOR);

EID: 33747894159     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e89-c.7.985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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