Evaluating the performance of quantum point contacts as nanoscale terahertz sensors

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4609-4614

  Song, Jungwoo ^a   Aizin, Gregory ^b   Kawano, Yukio ^c   Ishibashi, Koji ^c   Aoki, Nobuyuki ^d   Ochiai, Yuichi ^d   Reno, John L ^e   Bird, Jonathan P ^a,d  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON GAS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS;

HIGH MOBILITY; NANO SCALE; NANO-DEVICES; NEGATIVE BIAS; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; QUANTUM POINT CONTACT; RESPONSIVITY; SCHOTTKY GATE; STRONG NONLINEARITY; TERAHERTZ SENSORS; THZ DETECTION; THZ SIGNAL;

POINT CONTACTS;

EID: 77749249188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004609     Document Type: Article

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