Electronic control of extraordinary terahertz transmission through subwavelength metal hole arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7641-7648

  Chen, Hou Tong ^a   Lu, Hong ^b   Azad, Abul K ^a   Averitt, Richard D ^c   Gossard, Arthur C ^b   Trugman, Stuart A ^a   O'Hara, John F ^a   Taylor, Antoinette J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS VOLTAGE; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SERVOMECHANISMS;

DOPED SEMICONDUCTORS; ELECTRONIC CONTROLS; EXTERNAL VOLTAGE BIAS; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; METAL SEMICONDUCTORS; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE DEVICE; SUBSTRATE CONDUCTIVITY; TERAHERTZ TRANSMISSION;

SUBSTRATES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 44649084909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007641     Document Type: Article

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