• 文献标题:   Room-temperature, low-impedance and high-sensitivity terahertz direct detector based on bilayer graphene field-effect transistor
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   QIN H, SUN JD, LIANG SX, LI X, YANG XX, HE ZH, YU C, FENG ZH
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  • 出版物名称:   CARBON
  • ISSN:   0008-6223 EI 1873-3891
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   21
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.carbon.2017.02.037
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

We report a room-temperature, low-impedance and high-sensitivity terahertz direct detector based on bilayer graphene field-effect transistor (GFET). Epitaxially grown on silicon carbide, the bilayer graphene had an as-grown carrier mobility of 3000 cm(2)/Vs. The source/drain contacts were formed on the freshly cleaned graphene sheet to minimize the contact resistance and served also as terahertz antennas. The gate and the dielectric layer underneath with a length of 145 nm and a gap of 203 nm to the source/drain antennas were formed in a self-alignment process. Although the carrier mobility in the GFET was reduced to about 405 cm2/Vs, the high-quality ohmic contacts and the short graphene channel delivered an overall source-drain resistance less than 203 Omega. A voltage responsivity of 30 V/W and a noise equivalent power of 51 pW/Hz(1/2) were estimated in direct detection at 033 THz. By using the GFET detector as a two-terminal detector, i.e., with the gate floating, a transmission-type terahertz imaging was demonstrated. Such a low-impedance GFET detector is ready to be matched to a commercial 50-Omega low-noise radio/microwave frequency amplifier allowing for high-speed homodyne detection and heterodyne detection in a quasi-optical configuration. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.