Time Resolution and Dynamic Range of Field-Effect Transistor-Based Terahertz Detectors

Zagrajek, Przemyslaw and Danilov, Sergey N. and Marczewski, Jacek and Zaborowski, Michal and Kolacinski, Cezary and Obrebski, Dariusz and Kopyt, Pawel and Salski, Bartlomiej and But, Dmytro and Knap, Wojciech and Ganichev, Sergey D. (2019) Time Resolution and Dynamic Range of Field-Effect Transistor-Based Terahertz Detectors. JOURNAL OF INFRARED MILLIMETER AND TERAHERTZ WAVES, 40 (7). pp. 703-719. ISSN 1866-6892, 1866-6906

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Abstract

We studied time resolution and response power dependence of three terahertz detectors based on significantly different types of field-effect transistors. We analyzed the photoresponse of custom-made Si junctionless FETs, Si-MOSFETs, and GaAs-based high-electron-mobility transistor detectors. Applying monochromatic radiation of a high-power, pulsed, line-tunable molecular THz laser, which operated at frequencies in the range from 0.6 to 3.3 THz, we demonstrated that all these detectors have at least nanosecond response time. We showed that detectors yield a linear response in a wide range of radiation power. At high powers, the response saturates varying with radiation power P as U = R0P/(1 + P/P-s), where R-0 is the low-power responsivity and P-s is the saturation power. We demonstrated that the linear part response decreases with radiation frequency increase as R-0 proportional to f(-3), whereas the power at which signal saturates increases as P-s proportional to f(3). We discussed the observed dependencies in the framework of the Dyakonov-Shur mechanism and detector-antenna impedance matching. Our study showed that FET transistors can be used as ultrafast room temperature detectors of THz radiation and that their dynamic range extends over many orders of magnitude of power of incoming THz radiation. Therefore, when embedded with current driven read-out electronics, they are very well adopted for operation with high power pulsed sources.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: RADIATION; RESPONSIVITY; Terahertz; Detection; Time resolution; Nonlinearty
Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Divisions: Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Professor Ganichev > Group Sergey Ganichev
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 07 Apr 2020 09:38
Last Modified: 07 Apr 2020 09:38
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/26738

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