Novel tunable millimeter-wave grating-gated plasmonic detectors

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-91

  Dyer, Gregory C ^a   Aizin, Gregory R ^b   Reno, John L ^c   Shaner, Eric A ^c   Allen, S James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometers; millimeter wave detectors; millimeter wave devices; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; CURRENT GENERATION; DETECTION TECHNOLOGY; GAAS/ALGAAS; HIGH-ORDER; MILLIMETER-WAVE DETECTORS; NARROW BANDS; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PLASMON MODES; PLASMONIC; PLASMONICS; STATE OF THE ART; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS;

BOLOMETERS; INFRARED DETECTORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PLASMONS; SENSORS;

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES;

EID: 79951556116     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2049096     Document Type: Article

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