Broadband terahertz imaging with highly sensitive silicon CMOS detectors

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7827-7832

  Schuster, Franz ^a,b   Coquillat, Dominique ^b   Videlier, Hadley ^b   Sakowicz, MacIej ^b   Teppe, Frédéric ^b   Dussopt, Laurent ^a   Giffard, Benoît ^a   Skotnicki, Thomas ^c   Knap, Wojciech ^b  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c STMICROELECTRONICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; DISTILLATION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

ATMOSPHERIC WINDOW; BROADBAND TERAHERTZ; COUPLING ANTENNAS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INTEGRATED BOW; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; RESPONSIVITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICON CMOS; TERAHERTZ DETECTORS; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

SILICON DETECTORS;

EID: 79953900855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007827     Document Type: Article

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