Highly sensitive and wide-band tunable terahertz response of plasma waves based on graphene field effect transistors

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Lin ^a   Chen, Xiaoshuang ^a,b   Yu, Anqi ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a   Ding, Jiayi ^a   Lu, Wei ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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EID: 84903625839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05470     Document Type: Article

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