Detection of nanosecond-scale, high power THz pulses with a field effect transistor

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Preu, S ^a,b,c   Lu, H ^b   Sherwin, M S ^a   Gossard, A C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DAMAGE THRESHOLD; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH-POWER; INPUT POWER; LOW POWER; NOISE FLOOR; PULSE ENERGIES; SCHOTTKY DIODES; THZ PULSE; THZ SIGNAL; TIME CONSTANTS; ULTRA-FAST;

DETECTORS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS;

EID: 84862143094     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4705986     Document Type: Review

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