On metal contacts of terahertz quantum cascade lasers with a metal-metal waveguide

Semiconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Fathololoumi, Saeed ^a,b   Dupont, Emmanuel ^a   Razavipour, S Ghasem ^b   Laframboise, Sylvain R ^a   Parent, Guy ^a   Wasilewski, Zbigniew ^a   Liu, H C ^a   Ban, Dayan ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING LAYER; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; METAL CONTACTS; METAL-METAL WAVEGUIDES; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; METAL CLADDING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

METALS;

EID: 80053352256     PISSN: 02681242     EISSN: 13616641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0268-1242/26/10/105021     Document Type: Article

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