CMOS integrated antenna-coupled field-effect transistors for the detection of radiation from 0.2 to 4.3 THz

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3834-3843

  Boppel, Sebastian ^a   Lisauskas, Alvydas ^a   Mundt, Martin ^a   Seliuta, Dalius ^b   Minkeviius, Linas ^b   Kašalynas, Irmantas ^a   Valušis, Gintaras ^a   Mittendorff, Martin ^c   Winnerl, Stephan ^c   Krozer, Viktor ^a   Roskos, Hartmut G ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CMOS; direct terahertz detection; distributed resistive self mixing; patch antennas; plasmonic detection; submillimeter wave detectors; terahertz detectors

Indexed keywords

CMOS; PLASMONIC; SELF-MIXING; SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE DETECTORS; TERAHERTZ DETECTION; TERAHERTZ DETECTORS;

ANTENNAS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; DETECTORS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MIXING; PLASMONS; TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84871774686     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2221732     Document Type: Article

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