Active terahertz nanoantennas based on VO2 phase transition

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2064-2068

  Seo, Minah ^a   Kyoung, Jisoo ^a   Park, Hyeongryeol ^a   Koo, Sukmo ^a   Kim, Hyun Sun ^a   Bernien, Hannes ^a   Kim, Bong Jun ^b   Choe, Jong Ho ^c   Ahn, Yeong Hwan ^d   Kim, Hyun Tak ^b   Park, Namkyoo ^a   Park, Q Han ^c   Ahn, Kwangjun ^a   Kim, Dai Sik ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Nanoantenna; Phase transition device; Terahertz active device; Terahertz spectroscopy; Terahertz VO2

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEVICES; BROAD BANDS; DYNAMIC CONTROLS; EXTINCTION RATIOS; LONG WAVELENGTH; MEMORY EFFECTS; METALLIC COMPOSITES; NANOANTENNAS; NEGATIVE INDEX OF REFRACTION; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; SUPER CELL; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ VO2; THIN-FILM TECHNOLOGY; VANADIUM DIOXIDE;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; METALS; METAMATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; THIN FILMS; VANADIUM; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77953312287     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl1002153     Document Type: Article

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