Title
Structure-Sensitive Design For Wider Tunable Operation Of Terahertz Plasmon-Resonant Photomixer
Abstract
We performed numerical analyses on structure sensitive field emission properties of our proposing plasmon resonant photomixer (PRX) in the terahertz range. The photomixer incorporates double interdigitated grating strips for gate electrodes and a vertical resonator structure for realizing highly efficient terahertz emission even at room temperature. We investigated the dependence of total field emission properties of PRX's on their material and dimension parameters. Introduction of low-conductive gate electrodes and ac-coupled 2D periodic plasmon gratings with depleted connecting portions are effective for expanding its lower cutoff frequency. The cutoff frequency, which is around 1.0 THz in standard metal-gates configuration, is expanded to less than 500 GHz. The output intensity could also be amplified more than double. On the other hand, a shorter vertical cavity is effective for expanding its upper cutoff frequency, which is expanded close to vertical resonant frequency, while maintaining the lower cutoff frequency. The combination of these design rules can realize much broader bandwidth operation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1093/ietele/e89-c.7.985
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
plasmon resonance, photomixer, terahertz, grating, HEMT
Surface plasmon resonance,Grating,Resonator,Optics,Electronic engineering,Bandwidth (signal processing),STRIPS,Terahertz radiation,Engineering,Cutoff frequency,Plasmon
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E89C
7
0916-8524
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.63
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mitsuhiro Hanabe111.30
Takuya Nishimura233.01
Masaki Miyamoto3317.41
Tai-ichi Otsuji42313.08
Eiichi Sano576.98