An on-chip near-field terahertz probe and detector

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 618-621

  Kawano, Yukio ^a,b   Ishibashi, Koji ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; INTEGRATED DETECTION; NEAR FIELD IMAGING; SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS; TERAHERTZ DETECTORS; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ TECHNIQUE;

DETECTORS; PROBES; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS;

EID: 53349177463     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.157     Document Type: Article

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