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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 107, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4932091
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- European Union [604391]
- Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR) through the program FIRB-Futuro in Ricerca PLASMOGRAPH [RBFR10M5BT]
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We report on room temperature detection of terahertz radiation by means of antenna-coupled field effect transistors (FETs) fabricated using epitaxial graphene grown on silicon carbide. The achieved photoresponsivity (similar to 0.25 V/W) and noise equivalent power (similar to 80 nW/root Hz) result from the combined effect of two independent detection mechanisms: over-damped plasma wave rectification and thermoelectric effects, the latter ascribed to the presence of carrier density junctions along the FET channel. The calculated plasmonic and thermoelectric response reproduces qualitatively well the measured photovoltages; the experimentally observed sign-switch demonstrates the stronger contribution of plasmonic detection compared to the thermoelectric one. These results unveil the potential of plasmonic detectors exploiting epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide for fast large area imaging of macroscopic samples. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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