Pushing semiconductor detectors into the terahertz gap

Semiconductor terahertz detectors and absorption enhancement using plasmons

As novel applications using terahertz radiation are developed, there is an increased demand for sensitive terahertz detectors. This has led to new approaches for enhancing the response of terahertz detectors. Results were recently reported on the terahertz response of a p-type AlGaAs/GaAs, n-type GaAs/AlGaAs, n-type GaN/AlGaN, and p-type GaSb/GaSb Interfacial Workfunction Internal Photoemission...

Sequential multiphoton strategy for semiconductor-based terahertz 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 ...

Semiconductor Detectors - an Introduction

Microstructured semiconductor neutron detectors

Perforated semiconductor neutron detectors are compact diode detectors that operate at low power and can be fashioned to have high thermal neutron detection efficiency. Fabricated from high-purity Si wafers, the perforations are etched into the diode surface with ICP-RIE and backfilled with LiF neutron reactive material. The intrinsic thermal neutron detection efficiency depends upon many facto...