Use of Terahertz Photoconductive Sources to Characterize Tunable Graphene RF Plasmonic Antennas

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 390-396

  Cabellos Aparicio, Albert ^a   Llatser, Ignacio ^a   Alarcón, Eduard ^a   Hsu, Allen ^b   Palacios, Tomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna; frequency tunability; graphene; photoconductor; terahertz; wireless communications

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; ANTENNAS; GRAPHENE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PLASMONS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRICAL FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY TUNABILITY; LASER ILLUMINATION; PLASMON-POLARITONS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY RANGE; TERAHERTZ PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SOURCES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84924858906     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2015.2398931     Document Type: Article

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