Fetterman HR, Tannenwald PE, Clifton BJ, Parker CD, Fitzgerald WD, Erickson NR. Far-ir heterodyne radiometric measurements with quasioptical Schottky diode mixers. Appl Phys Lett. 1978;33(2):151–4.
Abstract: Frequency countings close to a phase locked zone in an electronic receiver show a 1/f power spectral density. The noise scaling versus the frequency deviation and the open loop gain are found from Adler's model of the phase locked loop. This fully agrees with experiments performed at 5 MHz on a receiver with a Schottky diode mixer and a low pass filter. The 1/f amplitude and frequency noise due to the whole set of (sub)harmonics is explained from a nonlinear mapping, with a coupling coefficient related to the structure of prime numbers.
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Iomdina EN, Goltsman GN, Seliverstov SV, Sianosyan AA, Teplyakova KO, Rusova AA. Study of transmittance and reflectance spectra of the cornea and the sclera in the THz frequency range. J Biomed Opt. 2016;21(9):97002 (1 to 5).
Abstract: An adequate water balance (hydration extent) is one of the basic factors of normal eye function, including its external shells: the cornea and the sclera. Adequate control of corneal and scleral hydration is very important for early diagnosis of a variety of eye diseases, stating indications for and contraindications against keratorefractive surgeries and the choice of contact lens correction solutions. THz systems of creating images in reflected beams are likely to become ideal instruments of noninvasive control of corneal and scleral hydration degrees. This paper reports on the results of a study involving transmittance and reflectance spectra for the cornea and the sclera of rabbit and human eyes, as well as those of the rabbit eye, in the frequency range of 0.13 to 0.32 THz. The dependence of the reflectance coefficient of these tissues on water mass percentage content was determined. The experiments were performed on three corneas, three rabbit scleras, two rabbit eyes, and three human scleras. The preliminary results demonstrate that the proposed technique, based on the use of a continuous THz radiation, may be utilized to create a device for noninvasive control of corneal and scleral hydration, which has clear potential of broad practical application.
Keywords: BWO, IMPATT diode, Schottky diode, medicine, animals, cornea, physiology, humans, rabbits, sclera diagnostic imaging, physiology
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Shurakov A, Mikhailov D, Belikov I, Kaurova N, Zilberley T, Prikhodko A, et al. Planar Schottky diode with a Γ-shaped anode suspended bridge. In: J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. Vol 1695.; 2020. 012154.
Abstract: In this paper we report on the fabrication of a planar Schottky diode utilizing a Г-shaped anode suspended bridge. The bridge maintains transition between the top and bottom level planes of a 1.4 µm thick GaAs mesa. To implement the profile of a suspended bridge and inward tilt of a mesa wall adjacent to it, we make use of an anisotropic etching of gallium arsenide. The geometry proposed enables the fabrication of a diode with mesa of an arbitrary thickness to mitigate AC losses in the diode layered structure at terahertz frequencies of interest. For frequencies beyond 1 THz, it is also beneficial to use the geometry for the implementation of n-GaAs/n-InGaAs heterojunction Schottky diodes grown on InP substrate.
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Fedorov G, Gayduchenko I, Titova N, Gazaliev A, Moskotin M, Kaurova N, et al. Carbon nanotube based schottky diodes as uncooled terahertz radiation detectors. Phys Status Solidi B. 2018;255(1):1700227 (1 to 6).
Abstract: Despite the intensive development of the terahertz technologies in the last decade, there is still a shortage of efficient room‐temperature radiation detectors. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are considered as a very promising material possessing many of the features peculiar for graphene (suppression of backscattering, high mobility, etc.) combined with a bandgap in the carrier spectrum. In this paper, we investigate the possibility to incorporate individual CNTs into devices that are similar to Schottky diodes. The latter is currently used to detect radiation with a frequency up to 50 GHz. We report results obtained with semiconducting (bandgap of about 0.5 eV) and quasi‐metallic (bandgap of few meV) single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Semiconducting CNTs show better performance up to 300 GHz with responsivity up to 100 V W−1, while quasi‐metallic CNTs are shown to operate up to 2.5 THz.
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Treuttel J, Thomas B, Maestrini A, Wang H, Alderman B, Siles JV, et al. A 380 GHz sub-harmonic mixer using MMIC foundry based Schottky diodes transferred onto quartz substrate. In: Proc. 20th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; 2009.
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