Tunable graphene antennas for selective enhancement of THz-emission

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3737-3745

  Filter, R ^a   Farhat, M ^a,b   Steglich, M ^a,c   Alaee, R ^a   Rockstuhl, C ^a   Lederer, F ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; GRAPHENE; LIGHT SOURCES; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CORONENE; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; EMISSION RATES; QUANTUM SYSTEM; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES; SPECTRAL FEATURE; THZ DEVICES; THZ-EMISSION; TUNABILITIES;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84874042731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.003737     Document Type: Article

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