Room temperature terahertz detection based on bulk plasmons in antenna-coupled GaAs field effect transistors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 25, 2008, Pages

  Kim, Sangwoo ^a   Zimmerman, Jeramy D ^b   Focardi, Paolo ^c   Gossard, Arthur C ^b   Wu, Dong Ho ^d   Sherwin, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; CHARGE DENSITY; DRAIN CURRENT; GALLIUM ALLOYS; MESFET DEVICES; METALS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL DESIGN; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; TRANSISTORS;

ANTENNA-COUPLED; APPLIED VOLTAGES; DRAIN VOLTAGES; EXCITATION FREQUENCIES; FIRST GENERATION; MEASURED SYSTEM; PLASMON; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SOURCE-DRAIN CURRENTS; TERAHERTZ DETECTION;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 46049112241     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2947587     Document Type: Article

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