Plasma-wave detectors for terahertz wireless communication

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1354-1356

  Blin, Stéphane ^a   Teppe, Frédéric ^b   Tohme, Lucie ^a   Hisatake, Shintaro ^c   Arakawa, Kazuki ^c   Nouvel, Philippe ^a   Coquillat, Dominique ^b   Pénarier, Annick ^a   Torres, Jérémie ^a   Varani, Luca ^a   Knap, Wojciech ^b   Nagatsuma, Tadao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER II   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Communications technology; field effect transistors (FETs); high electron mobility transistors; nanoelectronics; plasma waves; receivers; terahertz

Indexed keywords

ALL-SOLID-STATE; COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; DETECTION PROCESS; DIRECT DETECTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GAAS/ALGAAS; GATE-LENGTH; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR (HEMT); MODULATION BANDWIDTH; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TERA HERTZ; TRANSISTOR CHANNELS; UNI-TRAVELING-CARRIER PHOTODIODES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DETECTORS; DIODES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; NANOELECTRONICS; PLASMA OSCILLATIONS; PLASMA WAVES; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS); TERAHERTZ WAVES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS;

EID: 84866920103     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2012.2210022     Document Type: Article

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