Terahertz array imagers: Towards the implementation of terahertz cameras with plasma-wave-based silicon MOSFET detectors

Handbook of Terahertz Technology for Imaging, Sensing and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 231-271

  Boppel, S ^a   Lisauskas, A ^a   Roskos, H G ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS); Field effect transistor (FET) based rectification; Plasmonic mixing; Resistive mixing; Terahertz (THz) camera

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HETERODYNE DETECTION; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; MIXING; MOS DEVICES; MOSFET DEVICES; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PLASMONS; RADIATION DECONTAMINATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON DETECTORS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TRANSISTORS;

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; COMPLEMENTARY METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES; DETECTOR DESIGN; POWER DETECTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE DETECTOR; SILICON MOSFET; TERAHERTZ; THZ RADIATION;

TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS;

EID: 84893431539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857096494.2.231     Document Type: Chapter

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