Coherent and Tunable Terahertz Radiation from Graphene Surface Plasmon Polarirons Excited by Cyclotron Electron Beam

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhao, Tao ^a,b   Gong, Sen ^a,b   Hu, Min ^a,b   Zhong, Renbin ^a,b   Liu, Diwei ^a,b   Chen, Xiaoxing ^a,b   Zhang, Ping ^a,b   Wang, Xinran ^b,c   Zhang, Chao ^b,d   Wu, Peiheng ^b,c   Liu, Shenggang ^a,b  

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

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

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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EID: 84946593367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16059     Document Type: Article

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