Coherent and tunable terahertz radiation from graphene surface plasmon polaritons excited by an electron beam

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 20, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Shenggang ^a,b   Zhang, Chao ^a,b,c   Hu, Min ^a,b   Chen, Xiaoxing ^a,b   Zhang, Ping ^a,b   Gong, Sen ^a,b   Zhao, Tao ^a,b   Zhong, Renbin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Cooperative Innovation Centre of Terahertz Science ^*  (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GRAPHENE; PLASMONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COHERENT TERAHERTZ RADIATION; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RADIATION INTENSITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTING SURFACES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84901430441     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4879017     Document Type: Article

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