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We investigated the electronic and optoelectronic properties of vertical van der Waals heterostructure photodetectors using layered p type GaSe and n type InSe, with graphene as the transparent electrodes. Not only the photocurrent peaks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Faguang Yan , Dong Zhang , Wengang Luo , PingAn Hu , Qi Feng , Chao Shen , Xia Wei , Kai Chang , Kaiyou Wang

The discovery of graphene and the related fascinating capabilities have triggered an unprecedented interest in inorganic two-dimensional (2D) materials. Despite the impressive impact in a variety of photonic applications, the absence of…

Graphene is considered as a promising platform for detectors of high-frequency radiation up to the terahertz (THz) range due to graphene$'$s superior electron mobility. Previously it has been shown that graphene field effect transistors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 D. A. Bandurin , I. Gayduchencko , Y. Cao , M. Moskotin , A. Principi , I. V. Grigorieva , G. Goltsman , G. Fedorov , D. Svintsov

Graphene, owing to its zero bandgap electronic structure, is promising as an absorption material for ultra-wideband photodetection applications. However, graphene-absorption based detectors inherently suffer from poor responsivity due to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Krishna Murali , Nithin Abraham , Sarthak Das , Sangeeth Kallatt , Kausik Majumdar

Field-effect transistors coupled to integrated antennas (TeraFETs) are photodetectors being actively developed for the THz frequency range ($\sim$ 100 GHz - 10 THz). Among them, Graphene TeraFETs (G-TeraFETs) have demonstrated distinctive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Florian Ludwig , Andrey Generalov , Jakob Holstein , Anton Murros , Klaara Viisanen , Mika Prunnila , Hartmut G. Roskos

Graphene is known to show a significant photo-thermoelectric effect that can exceed its photovoltaic contribution. Here, by utilizing this effect, we demonstrate a photovoltage measurement of cyclotron resonance in a double-back-gated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 Kei Kinoshita , Rai Moriya , Miho Arai , Satoru Masubuchi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tomoki Machida

High-frequency terahertz (THz) detectors are vital for next-generation high-speed wireless communication systems. Graphene, with its high carrier mobility, broadband absorption, and weak electron-phonon coupling, offers great promise for…

Uncooled Terahertz (THz) photodetectors (PDs) showing fast (ps) response and high sensitivity (noise equivalent power (NEP) < $nWHz^{-1/2}$) over a broad (0.5THz-10THz) frequency range are needed for applications in high-resolution…

We analyze the performance of graphene microstructures as thermal photon detectors and deduce the range of parameters that define a linear response. The saturation effects of a graphene thermal detector that operates beyond the linear range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Chris B. McKitterick , Daniel E. Prober , Boris S. Karasik

We propose and discuss terahertz electro-absorption modulators based on graphene plasmonic structures. The active device consists of a self-gated pair of graphene layers, which are patterned to structures supporting THz plasmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez , Rusen Yan , Mingda Zhu , Debdeep Jena , Lei Liu , Huili Grace Xing

We present a graphene photodetector for telecom applications based on a silicon photonic crystal defect waveguide. The photonic structure is used to confine the propagating light in a narrow region in the graphene layer to enhance…

We propose and evaluate the characteristics of the terahertz (THz) detectors based on perforated graphene layers (PGLs). The PGL structures constitute the interdigital in-plane arrays of the graphene microribbons (GMRs) connected by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 V. Ryzhii , C. Tang , M. Ryzhii , T. Otsuji , M. S. Shur

Graphene based photo-detecting has received great attentions and the performance of such detector is stretching to both ends of high sensitivity and ultra-fast response. However, limited by the current photo-gating mechanism, the price for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-23 Xitao Guo , Wenhui Wang , Haiyan Nan , Yuanfang Yu , Jie Jiang , Weiwei Zhao , Jinhuan Li , Zainab Zafar , Nan Xiang , Zhonghua Ni , Weida Hu , Yumeng You , Zhenhua Ni

Plasmonic terahertz detection by a double-grating gate field-effect transistor structure with an asymmetric unit cell is studied theoretically. Detection responsivity exceeding 8 kV/W at room temperature in the photovoltaic response mode is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 V. V. Popov , D. V. Fateev , T. Otsuji , Y. M. Meziani , D. Coquillat , W. Knap

Photoconductivity of novel materials is the key property of interest for design of photodetectors, optical modulators, and switches. Despite the photoconductivity of most novel 2d materials has been studied both theoretically and…

The combination of graphene with semiconductor materials in heterostructure photodetectors, has enabled amplified detection of femtowatt light signals using micron-scale electronic devices. Presently, the speed of such detectors is limited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Jake D. Mehew , Selim Unal , Elias Torres Alonso , Gareth F. Jones , Saad Fadhil Ramadhan , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

We propose and substantiate the concept of terahertz (THz) laser enabled by the resonant electron radiative transitions between graphene layers (GLs) in double-GL structures. We estimate the THz gain for TM-mode exhibiting very low Drude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 V. Ryzhii , A. A. Dubinov , V. Ya. Aleshkin , M. Ryzhii , T. Otsuji

Graphene-based terahertz (THz) devices have emerged as promising platforms for a variety of applications, leveraging graphene's unique optoelectronic properties. This review explores recent advancements in utilizing graphene in THz…

We report on noise and thermal conductance measurements taken in order to determine an upper bound on the performance of graphene as a terahertz photon detector. The main mechanism for sensitive terahertz detection in graphene is bolometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 Christopher B. McKitterick , Heli Vora , Xu Du , Boris S. Karasik , Daniel E. Prober

Intense terahertz (THz) electromagnetic fields have been utilized to reveal a variety of extremely nonlinear optical effects in many materials through nonperturbative driving of elementary and collective excitations. However, such nonlinear…