Resonant dipole antennas for continuous-wave terahertz photomixers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1622-1624

  Gregory, I S ^a,b   Tribe, W R ^b   Cole, B E ^b   Evans, M J ^b   Linfield, E H ^a   Davies, A G ^c   Missous, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TERAVIEW LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHOTOMIXERS; SPIRAL ANTENNAS; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 4944253356     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1789244     Document Type: Article

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