Emission of terahertz radiation from InGaP/InGaAs/GaAs grating-bicoupled plasmon-resonant emitter

Solid-State Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 10 SPEC. ISS, 2007, Pages 1319-1327

  Otsuji, Taiichi ^a   Meziani, Yahya Moubarak ^a   Hanabe, Mitsuhiro ^a   Nishimura, Takuya ^a   Sano, Eiichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emitter; Grating; HEMT; Photomixing; Plasmon; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

PHOTOMIXING; PLASMON INSTABILITY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 35148859737     PISSN: 00381101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sse.2007.07.017     Document Type: Article

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