Optical and Quantum Electronics

, Volume 42, Issue 11–13, pp 793–799 | Cite as

Viscous hydrodynamic model of non-linear plasma oscillations in two-dimensional conduction channels and application to the detection of terahertz signals

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Abstract

In the Dyakonov-Shur detector the plasma resonance in a short channel High Electron Mobility Transistor is used for the resonant tunable detection of terahertz radiation. We derived a viscous hydrodynamic model with temperature dependent transport coefficients for the gated conduction channel. We evaluated the detector response function and obtained the quality factor of the plasma resonance.

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Gated conduction channel Plasma resonance Terahertz response 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.U.S. Army Research LaboratoryRDRL-SEE-MAdelphiUSA

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