Terahertz emitters and detectors based on carbon nanotubes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6328, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Portnoi, Mikhail E ^a,c   Kibis, Oleg V ^b,c   Rosenau Da Costa, Marcelo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Terahertz radiation

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SUPERLATTICES;

FREQUENCY MULTIPLICATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THZ GENERATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33751082443     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.680085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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