Regenerative terahertz quantum detectors

Plasmonic terahertz detectors for biodetection

A report is presented on the biodetection capabilities of plasmonic terahertz detectors. Large changes in the terahertz response of plasmonic detectors loaded with solutions of globulin-free bovine serum albumin, arginine and heparin were measured for concentrations that did affect the device transfer characteristics. The consistent change of the response characteristics with specimen type and ...

High performance bilayer-graphene terahertz detectors

Davide Spirito, Dominique Coquillat, Sergio L. De Bonis, Antonio Lombardo, Matteo Bruna, Andrea C. Ferrari, Vittorio Pellegrini, Alessandro Tredicucci, Wojciech Knap, and Miriam S. Vitiello NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze – CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy Laboratoire Charles Coulomb UMR 5221, Universit e Montpellier 2 & CNRS-, F-34095 Montpellier, France ...

Uncooled Detectors of Continuum Terahertz Radiation

THz continuum spectral photometry has new and unique applications in different civil and military areas presenting a number of distinctive advantages on the well known microwaves or midto near-infrared technologies. THz sensing is essential to investigate the emission mechanisms by high energy particle acceleration processes. Technical challenges appear to diagnose radiation produced by solar f...

Transport in semiconductor superlattices: from quantum kinetics to terahertz-photon detectors

Semiconductor superlattices are interesting for two distinct reasons: the possibility to design their structure (band-width(s), doping, etc.) gives access to a large parameter space where different physical phenomena can be explored. Secondly, many important device applications have been proposed, and then subsequently successfully fabricated. A number of theoretical approaches has been used to...

AFRL-OSR-VA-TR-2013-0013 Quantum Ring Intersubband Detectors for Terahertz Detection at High Temperatures