Novel antenna-integrated photodiodes with strained absorbers designed for use as terahertz sources

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 202-209

  Henning, Ian D ^a   Adams, Michael J ^a   Vaughan, Martin ^b   Abraham, Thomas ^a   Sun, Yun ^a   Dyson, Angela ^c   Moodie, David G ^d   Rogers, Dave C ^d   Cannard, Paul J ^d   Dosanjh, Sukhjiban ^d   Skuse, Mark ^d   Firth, Richard J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d Ipswich Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Photodetectors; planar antenna; strain; submillimeter wave generation

Indexed keywords

100 GHZ; 1550 NM; BROADBAND SOURCES; DFB LASER; EXTERNAL CAVITY LASERS; INTEGRATED PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMIXERS; PLANAR ANTENNA; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE GENERATION; TELECOM; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SOURCES; THZ EMISSION; TUNABLE EMISSIONS; WIDE-BAND;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LOG PERIODIC ANTENNAS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 79951555639     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2049196     Document Type: Article

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