Terahertz radiation emitted from intrinsic Josephson junctions in high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu 2O8+δ

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E95-C, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 347-354

  Minami, Hidetoshi ^a,b,c   Tsujimoto, Manabu ^a,b,c   Kashiwagi, Takanari ^a,b,c   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a,b,c,d   Kadowaki, Kazuo ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c WPI MANA   (Japan)

^d JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intrinsic Josephson junction; Superconductor; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

ION BEAMS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

DISTRIBUTION OF EMISSIONS; ELECTRICAL MODULATION; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; INTRINSIC JOSEPHSON JUNCTION; OPERATION MECHANISM; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84863278386     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E95.C.347     Document Type: Article

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