Active two-terminal devices as sources at THz frequencies: concepts, performance, and trends

Heribert Eisele

doi:10.1117/12.678361

19 May 2006 Active two-terminal devices as sources at THz frequencies: concepts, performance, and trends

Heribert Eisele

Proceedings Volume 6257, ICONO 2005: Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy, High Precision Measurements, and Laser Biomedicine and Chemistry; 62570G (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.678361
Event: ICONO 2005, 2005, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Abstract

The paper discusses and compares the concepts, performance potential, and most recent experimental results of both classical and novel active two-terminal for low-noise RF power generation at submillimeter-wave frequencies up to 1 THz. These devices use transit-time, transferred-electron, and quantum-mechanical effects (or a combination of them) to create a negative differential resistance at the frequency of interest. Examples of state-of-the-art results are output power levels of more than 3.5 mW at 300 GHz and more than 1.6 MW at 327 GHz from an InP Gunn device as well as more than 140 μW at 355 GHz from a GaAs tunnel-injection transit-time diode.

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Heribert Eisele "Active two-terminal devices as sources at THz frequencies: concepts, performance, and trends", Proc. SPIE 6257, ICONO 2005: Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy, High Precision Measurements, and Laser Biomedicine and Chemistry, 62570G (19 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.678361

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