Recent advances in the research toward graphene-based terahertz lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9382, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Otsuji, Taiichi ^a   Satou, Akira ^a   Watanabe, Takayuki ^a   Boubanga Tombet, Stephane A ^a   Ryzhii, Maxim ^b   Dubinov, Alexander ^c   Popov, Vyacheslav V ^d,e   Mitin, Vladimir ^f   Shur, Michael ^g   Ryzhii, Victor ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^c LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

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

^e SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f State University of New York   (United States)

^g RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

current injection; Graphene; laser; plasmon polariton; resonant tunneling; terahertz

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INFRARED LASERS; LASERS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANT TUNNELING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CAPACITOR STRUCTURES; CURRENT INJECTIONS; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; PLASMON-POLARITONS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TERA HERTZ;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84930172766     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2079411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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