Quasi-Coherent Thermal Emission in the Terahertz by Doped Semiconductors

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 443-450

  Kong, B D ^a   Kim, K W ^a   Trew, R J ^a   Sokolov, V N ^a,b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

1 D grating; radiative heat transfer; surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs); terahertz radiation; thermal emission

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008030360     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2038133     Document Type: Article

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