Emission and detection of terahertz radiation using two-dimensional plasmons in semiconductor nanoheterostructures for nondestructive evaluations

Optical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Otsuji, Taiichi ^a   Watanabe, Takayuki ^a   Tombet, Stephane Albon Boubanga ^a   Satou, Akira ^a   Ryzhii, Victor ^a   Popov, Vyacheslav ^b   Knap, Wojciech ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

detection; emission; nondestructive; plasmons; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; HETEROSTRUCTURE MATERIALS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR (HEMT); NANO-HETEROSTRUCTURES; NON DESTRUCTIVE; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; TERA HERTZ; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ERROR DETECTION; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; NEUTRON EMISSION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PLASMONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84890022036     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.53.3.031206     Document Type: Article

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