Plasmonic photoconductive detectors for enhanced terahertz detection sensitivity

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 17221-17227

  Wang, Ning ^a   Hashemi, Mohammad R ^a   Jarrahi, Mona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; FREQUENCY BANDS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PLASMONS; TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS;

CONTACT ELECTRODES; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; OPERATION CONDITIONS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE DETECTORS; TERAHERTZ DETECTION; TERAHERTZ DETECTORS; TIME-DOMAIN TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84880560772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.017221     Document Type: Article

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