A review of terahertz detectors

RA Lewis - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Physics is the interplay of energy and matter. Energy, in the form of light, interacting with
matter, principally in the solid state, underpins this topical review. The subject is developed …

Review of GaN-based devices for terahertz operation

K Ahi - Optical Engineering, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
GaN provides the highest electron saturation velocity, breakdown voltage, operation
temperature, and thus the highest combined frequency-power performance among …

Terahertz plasmonics: Good results and great expectations

T Otsuji, M Shur - IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The terahertz (THz) range is the next frontier of electronics and optoelectronics with potential
applications ranging from imaging, space communications, computing, quality control, and …

Room-temperature, low-impedance and high-sensitivity terahertz direct detector based on bilayer graphene field-effect transistor

H Qin, J Sun, S Liang, X Li, X Yang, Z He, C Yu, Z Feng - Carbon, 2017 - Elsevier
We report a room-temperature, low-impedance and high-sensitivity terahertz direct detector
based on bilayer graphene field-effect transistor (GFET). Epitaxially grown on silicon …

A CMOS fully integrated 860-GHz terahertz sensor

Z Liu, L Liu, J Yang, N Wu - IEEE Transactions on Terahertz …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a CMOS fully integrated 860-GHz terahertz (THz) sensor. The sensor
integrates a single-NMOS THz detector, a low-noise chopper instrumentation amplifier and a …

Passive terahertz imaging detectors based on antenna-coupled high-electron-mobility transistors

J Sun, Y Zhu, W Feng, Q Ding, H Qin, Y Sun… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Aiming at the requirement of passive terahertz imaging, we report a high-sensitivity terahertz
detector based on an antenna-coupled AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) …

Terahertz Detection with Graphene FETs: Photothermoelectric and Resistive Self-Mixing Contributions to the Detector Response

F Ludwig, A Generalov, J Holstein… - ACS Applied …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Field-effect transistors coupled to integrated antennas [terahertz field-effect transistors
(TeraFETs)] are photodetectors being actively developed for the terahertz (THz) frequency …

Modeling of antenna-coupled Si MOSFETs in the terahertz frequency range

F Ludwig, J Holstein, A Krysl… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on the modeling and experimental characterization of Si complementary metal-
oxide-silicon (CMOS) detectors of terahertz radiation based on antenna-coupled field-effect …

Survey of terahertz photonics and biophotonics

K Ahi, N Jessurun, MP Hosseini… - Optical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We review the advances of terahertz (THz) science and technology in biophotonics,
including related challenges and solutions. The main impediment to THz spectroscopy and …

Detection of incoherent terahertz light using antenna-coupled high-electron-mobility field-effect transistors

H Qin, X Li, J Sun, Z Zhang, Y Sun, Y Yu, X Li… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The sensitivity of direct terahertz detectors based on self-mixing of terahertz electromagnetic
waves in field-effect transistors is being improved with noise-equivalent power close to that …