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We provide an analysis of the electromagnetic modes of three-dimensional metamaterial resonators in the THz frequency range. The fundamental resonance of the structures is fully described by an analytical circuit model, which not only…

The plasma oscillations in high-mobility field-effect transistors (HEMTs) have emerged as a key physical mechanism for manipulating electromagnetic radiation in the sub-terahertz (sub-THz) and THz frequency ranges. These collective electron…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-22 Michael Shur , Gregory Aizin

We analyze the operation of the hot-electron FET bolometers with the graphene channels (GCs) and the gate barrier layers (BLs). Such bolometers use the thermionic emission of the hot electrons heated by incident modulated THz radiation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 V. Ryzhii , C. Tang , T. Otsuji , M. Ryzhii , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur

We predict the self-excitation of terahertz (THz) oscillations due to the plasma instability in the lateral n+-i-n-n+$ graphene field-effect transistors (G-FET). The instability is associated with the Coulomb drag of the quasi-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 V. Ryzhii , M. Ryzhii , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur , T. Otsuji

Graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) are among the most promising platforms for ultrasensitive chemical and biological sensing due to their high carrier mobility, large surface area, and low intrinsic noise. However, conventional…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Vinay Kammarchedu , Heshmat Asgharian , Hossein Chenani , Aida Ebrahimi

We report on the design and demonstration of ultra-wide bandgap AlGaN polarization-graded field effect transistors with ultra-thin channels to enable excellent current density and high-frequency performance while significantly reducing…

The current (voltage) responsivity of the superlattice-based diode detectors in the terahertz frequency band which includes the region of the polar optical phonon frequencies has been analyzed theoretically. Within the framework of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-30 Anatoly A. Ignatov

We consider the carrier transport and plasmonic phenomena in the lateral carbon nanotube (CNT) networks forming the device channel with asymmetric electrodes. One electrode is the Ohmic contact to the CNT network and the another contact is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 V. Ryzhii , T. Otsuji , M. Ryzhii , V. G. Leiman , G. Fedorov , G. N. Goltzman , I. A. Gayduchenko , N. Titova , D. Coquillat , D. But , W. Knap , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur

We study transmission of the terahertz radiation through a two-dimensional electron gas with a concentration controlled by grating gate electrodes. Voltage applied to these electrodes creates a lateral plasmonic crystal with a gate-tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 I. V. Gorbenko , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

Inspired by the extensive application of terahertz imaging technologies in the field of aerospace, we exploit a terahertz frequency modulated continuous wave imaging method with continuous wavelet transform algorithm to detect a multilayer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Yu Zhou

Terahertz emission spectroscopy (TES) has recently played an important role in unveiling the spin dynamics at a terahertz (THz) frequency range. So far, ferromagnetic (FM)/nonmagnetic (NM) heterostructures have been intensively studied as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Mengji Chen , Rahul Mishra , Yang Wu , Kyusup Lee , Hyunsoo Yang

We report the observation of the terahertz-induced ratchet effect in graphene-based two-dimensional (2D) metamaterials. The metamaterial consists of a graphite gate patterned with an array of triangular antidots placed under a graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 I. Yahniuk , M. Hild , L. E. Golub , J. Amann , J. Eroms , D. Weiss , Wun-Hao Kang , Ming-Hao Liu , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , S. D. Ganichev

We achieve high detectivity terahertz sensing using a silicon nitride nanomechanical resonator functionalized with a metasurface absorber. High performances are achieved by striking a fine balance between the frequency stability of the…

This work reports the design and analysis of an n-type tunneling field effect transistor based on InN. The tunneling current is evaluated from the fundamental principles of quantum mechanical tunneling and semiclassical carrier transport.…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-03 Krishnendu Ghosh , Uttam Singisetti

Graphene is a promising candidate for the development of detectors of Terahertz (THz) radiation. A well-known detection scheme due to Dyakonov and Shur exploits the confinement of plasma waves in a field-effect transistor (FET), whereby a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Andrea Tomadin , Alessandro Tredicucci , Vittorio Pellegrini , Miriam S. Vitiello , Marco Polini

We report on terahertz (THz) radiation under electrical pumping from a degenerate semiconductor possessing an electron accumulation layer. In InN, the random grating formed by topographical defects provides high-efficiency coupling of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 T. V. Shubina , N. A. Gippius , V. A. Shalygin , A. V. Andrianov , S. V. Ivanov

The nonlinear metamaterials have been shown to provide nonlinear properties with high nonlinear conversion efficiency and in a myriad of light manipulation. Here we study terahertz generation from nonlinear metasurface consisting of single…

Imaging systems operating in the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum are in great demand because of the distinct characteristics of terahertz waves in penetrating many optically-opaque materials and providing unique spectral…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-09 Xurong Li , Deniz Mengu , Aydogan Ozcan , Mona Jarrahi

Achieving efficient, high-power harmonic generation in the terahertz spectral domain has technological applications, for example in sixth generation (6G) communication networks. Massless Dirac fermions possess extremely large terahertz…

We employ ultrabroadband terahertz (THz) spectroscopy to expose the high-frequency transport properties of Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene. By controlling the carrier concentration via tunable electrical gating, both equilibrium and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 G. Coslovich , R. P. Smith , S. -F. Shi , J. H. Buss , J. T. Robinson , F. Wang , R. A. Kaindl