Enhanced electromagnetic coupling between terahertz radiation and plasmons in a gratinggate transistor structure on membrane substrate

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16771-16776

  Popov, Vyacheslav V ^a,b   Fateev, Denis V ^b   Polischuk, Olga V ^b   Shur, Michael S ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; PLASMONS;

BULK SUBSTRATES; CONVENTIONAL GRATING; PLASMONIC; RESPONSIVITY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 77955648355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016771     Document Type: Article

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