Broadband graphene terahertz modulators enabled by intraband transitions

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sensale Rodriguez, Berardi ^a   Yan, Rusen ^a   Kelly, Michelle M ^a   Fang, Tian ^a   Tahy, Kristof ^a   Hwang, Wan Sik ^a   Jena, Debdeep ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Xing, Huili Grace ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATOR; ARTICLE; BROADBAND TETRAHERTZ MODULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84860276222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1787     Document Type: Article

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