Optical characterization of gold-cuprous oxide interfaces for terahertz emission applications
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Optical characterization of gold-cuprous oxide interfaces for terahertz emission applications.
We show that the interface between gold and thermally formed cuprous oxide, which emits terahertz radiation when illuminated with ultrafast femtosecond lasers, is in fact an AuCu/Cu₂O interface due to the formation of the thermal diffusion alloy AuCu. The alloy enables the formation of a Schottky-barrier-like electric field near the interface which is essential to explain the THz emission from ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Optics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1559-128X,2155-3165
DOI: 10.1364/ao.53.001994