Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging–Modern techniques and applications

PU Jepsen, DG Cooke, M Koch - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past three decades a new spectroscopic technique with unique possibilities has
emerged. Based on coherent and time‐resolved detection of the electric field of ultrashort …

Carrier dynamics in semiconductors studied with time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy

R Ulbricht, E Hendry, J Shan, TF Heinz, M Bonn - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Time-resolved, pulsed terahertz spectroscopy has developed into a powerful tool to study
charge carrier dynamics in semiconductors and semiconductor structures over the past …

A review of the terahertz conductivity of bulk and nano-materials

J Lloyd-Hughes, TI Jeon - Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz …, 2012 - Springer
We review pioneering and recent studies of the conductivity of solid state systems at
terahertz frequencies. A variety of theoretical formalisms that describe the terahertz …

Terahertz conductivity of thin gold films at the metal-insulator percolation transition

M Walther, DG Cooke, C Sherstan, M Hajar… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy is used to measure the complex conductivity of
nanometer-thick gold films evaporated on silicon substrates in the far-infrared spectral …

Microscopic origin of the Drude-Smith model

TL Cocker, D Baillie, M Buruma, LV Titova, RD Sydora… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The Drude-Smith model has been used extensively in fitting the THz conductivities of
nanomaterials with carrier confinement on the mesoscopic scale. Here, we show that the …

Metal-insulator phase transition in a thin film observed with terahertz spectroscopy

PU Jepsen, BM Fischer, A Thoman, H Helm… - Physical Review B …, 2006 - APS
We investigate the dielectric properties of a thin VO 2 film in the terahertz frequency range in
the vicinity of the semiconductor-metal phase transition. Phase-sensitive broadband …

Silicon quantum dots: surface matters

K Dohnalová, T Gregorkiewicz… - Journal of Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) hold great promise for many future technologies. Silicon is
already at the core of photovoltaics and microelectronics, and SiQDs are capable of efficient …

Graphene conductance uniformity map**

JD Buron, DH Petersen, P Bøggild, DG Cooke… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a combination of micro four-point probe (M4PP) and non-contact terahertz
time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) measurements for centimeter scale quantitative …

Terahertz generation by means of optical lasers

GK Kitaeva - Laser Physics Letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Generation of high‐power radiation in terahertz frequency range 0.3–10 THz is a fast
develo** research area attracting considerable interest over the past years due to its …

Transient terahertz conductivity of GaAs nanowires

P Parkinson, J Lloyd-Hughes, Q Gao, HH Tan… - Nano …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The time-resolved conductivity of isolated GaAs nanowires is investigated by optical-pump
terahertz-probe time-domain spectroscopy. The electronic response exhibits a pronounced …