Electrically driven nanopillars for THz quantum cascade lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 10917-10923

  Amanti, M I ^a,b   Bismuto, A ^a   Beck, M ^a   Isa, L ^a   Kumar, K ^a,c   Reimhult, E ^a,d   Faist, J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ACTIVE MEDIA; ELECTRICAL INJECTION; LARGE-SCALE ARRAYS; PARALLEL PROCESS; QUANTUM CASCADES; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS; THZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LASER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84878561213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.010917     Document Type: Article

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