Generation of tunable terahertz radiation using Josephson vortices: Transition and Cherenkov radiation

Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications

Volumn 445-448, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 175-179

  Savel'ev, Sergey ^a,b   Yampol'skii, Valery ^a,c   Rakhmanov, A L ^a,d   Nori, Franco ^a,e  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c A USIKOV INSTITUTE OF RADIO PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Ukraine)

^d INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ELECTRODYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Layered superconductors; THz emitters; THz radiation

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; LAYERED MANUFACTURING; LITHOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

CHERENKOV RADIATION; ION IRRADIATION LITHOGRAPHY; LAYERED SUPERCONDUCTORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CERENKOV COUNTERS;

EID: 33748139871     PISSN: 09214534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physc.2006.03.120     Document Type: Article

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