Emission of terahertz waves from stacks of intrinsic josephson junctions

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 886-890

  Gray, K E ^a   Koshelev, A E ^a   Kurter, C ^a   Kadowaki, K ^b   Yamamoto, T ^b   Minami, H ^b   Yamaguchi, H ^b   Tachiki, M ^c   Kwok, W K ^a   Welp, U ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intrinsic josephson junctions; THz radiation

Indexed keywords

COHERENT STATE; CONTINUOUS WAVE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RESONATORS; EMISSION POWER; INTRINSIC JOSEPHSON JUNCTION; INTRINSIC JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; MESOSCOPICS; SELF-HEATING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TERAHERTZ WAVES; THZ-RADIATION; VOLTAGE-TUNABLE;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; RESONATORS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 68649092261     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2017888     Document Type: Conference Paper

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