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We report on the development of a tunable antenna coupled intersubband terahertz (TACIT) detector based on GaAs/AlGaAs two dimensional electron gas. A successful device design and micro-fabrication process have been developed which maintain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-21 Nutan Gautam , Jonathan Kawamura , Nacer Chahat , Boris Karasik , Paolo Focardi , Samuel Gulkis , Loren Pfeiffer , Mark Sherwin

The current responsivity of a semiconductor superlattice THz-photon detector is calculated using an equivalent circuit model which takes into account the finite matching efficiency between a detector antenna and the superlattice in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Anatoly A. Ignatov , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We present an extensive study of resonant two-dimensional (2D) plasmon excitations in grating-gated quantum well heterostructures, which enable an electrical control of periodic charge carrier density profile. Our study combines theoretical…

In order to characterize magnetic-field (B) tunable THz plasmonic detectors, spectroscopy experiments were carried out at liquid helium temperatures and high magnetic fields on devices fabricated on a high electron mobility GaAs/AlGaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-09 M. Białek , A. M. Witowski , M. Orlita , M. Potemski , M. Czapkiewicz , J. Wróbel , V. Umansky , M. Grynberg , J. Łusakowski

Topological defects are ubiquitous from solid state physics to cosmology, where they drive phase transitions by proliferating as domain walls, monopoles or vortices. As quantum excitations, they often display fractional charge and anyonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 R. Koushik , Matthias Baenninger , Vijay Narayan , Subroto Mukerjee , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie , Arindam Ghosh

Different terrestrial terahertz applications would benefit from large-format arrays, operating in compact and inexpensive cryocoolers at liquid helium temperature with sensitivity, limited by the 300-K background radiation only. A…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-03 Artem Kuzmin , Steffen Doerner , Stefan Singer , Ilya Charaev , Konstantin Ilin , Stefan Wuensch , Michael Siegel

Imaging applications in the terahertz (THz) frequency range are severely restricted by diffraction. Near-field scanning probe microscopy is commonly employed to enable mapping of the THz electromagnetic fields with sub-wavelength spatial…

Coherent phonons describe the collective, ultrafast motion of atoms and play a central role in light-induced structural dynamics. Here, we employ terahertz scanning tunneling microscopy (THz-STM) to excite and detect coherent phonons in…

This work reports flexible fully transparent high-voltage diodes that feature high rectification ratio (Rr 10 8) and high breakdown voltage (Vb 150 V) simultaneously, combined with their applications as building blocks of energy management…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Yonghui Zhang , Zengxia Mei , Tao Wang , Wenxing Huo , Shujuan Cui , Huili Liang , Xiaolong Du

Phase modulation plays a crucial role in various terahertz applications, including biomedical imaging, high-rate communication, and radar detection. Existing terahertz phase shifters typically rely on tuning the resonant effect of…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-19 Xudong Liu , Daosong Yu , Chuanfu Sun , Zhijie Mei , Hao Chen , Jianbin Xu , Yiwen Sun

We fabricated fully epitaxial Fe/ZnO/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with low junction resistance-area products (several $\Omega$ $\mu$m$^2$) and conducted a theoretical estimation of square-low rectifying performance for a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Hidekazhi Saito , Hiroshi Imamura

Single-photon terahertz (THz) detection is one of the most demanding technology for a variety of fields and could lead to many breakthroughs. Although its significant progress has been made in the last two decades, operating it at room…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Danyang Li , Zhengyang Bai , Xiaoliang Zuo , Yuelong Wu , Jiteng Sheng , Haibin Wu

Active control of optical nonlinearity is essential for advancing next-generation electronics and photonics, including high-speed wireless communications, optical information processing, and nonlinear signal manipulation. However, achieving…

We analyze the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) heating by the incident terahertz (THz) radiation in the field-effect transistor (FET) structures with the graphene channels (GCs) and the black-phosphorus and black-arsenic gate barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 V. Ryzhii , C. Tang , T. Otsuji , M. Ryzhii , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur

In this paper, we study the sensitivity-tunable Terahertz (THz) liquid/gas biosensor in a coupling prism-three-dimensional Dirac semimetal (3D DSM) multilayer structure. The high sensitivity of the biosensor originates from the sharp…

High input intensities are usually required to efficiently excite optical nonlinear effects in ultrathin structures. This problem is particularly critical at terahertz (THz) frequencies because high input power THz sources are not…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-27 Tianjing Guo , Boyuan Jin , Christos Argyropoulos

Condensates are a hallmark of emergence in quantum materials with superconductors and charge density wave as prominent examples. An excitonic insulator (EI) is an intriguing addition to this library, exhibiting spontaneous condensation of…

We report on experimental studies of terahertz (THz) radiation transmission through grating-gate graphene-channel transistor nanostructures and demonstrate room temperature THz radiation amplification stimulated by current-driven plasmon…

Because of the ultrafast and photon-driven nature of the transport in their active region, we demonstrate that quantum cascade lasers can be operated as resonantly amplified terahertz detectors. Tunable responsivities up to 50 V/W and noise…

Semiconductor nanowire field-effect transistors represent a promising platform for the development of room-temperature (RT) terahertz (THz) frequency light detectors due to the strong nonlinearity of their transfer characteristics and their…