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Pt/PbSe optoelectronic receivers designed for 6G and terahertz communication technologies

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Herein PbSe thin films are coated onto glass and semitransparent platinum substrates. The films which are treated as optoelectronic signal receivers are deposited by the thermal evaporation technique under a vacuum pressure of 10−5 mbar. The structural investigations have shown that (glass, Pt)/PbSe films are of polycrystalline nature. Optically, Pt substrates increased the transparency and reflectivity of PbSe films. The energy band gap of PbSe is also increased by 0.12 eV when films are coated onto Pt substrates. In addition the dielectric constant also increased as a result of strong interaction between Pt plasmonic particles and lead selenide. On the other hand, fitting of the imaginary part of the dielectric constant using Drude–Lorentz model has shown that coating of PbSe onto semitransparent Pt substrates increased the drift mobility of lead selenide by four times. Pt substrates resulted in a decrease in the density of free charge carriers and increases the scattering time constant at femtosecond levels. (Glass, Pt)/PbSe optoelectronic receivers displayed plasmon frequencies up to ~ 13 GHz and showed terahertz cutoff frequency of ~ 1.0 THz. In addition, allowing the propagation of an ac signal of low amplitude in the Pt/PbSe/Pt receivers has shown that the devices exhibit wide range of resistance tunability. The microwave cutoff frequency also reached 14 GHz. Both of the optical and electrical measurements proved the suitability of the Pt/PbSe devices for 6G and terahertz communication technologies.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the technical and financial support provided by the Ministry of Education and King Abdulaziz University, DSR, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.h thanks DSR for technical.

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This research work was funded by Institutional Fund Projects under grant no. IFPIP:0337-665-1443. The authors gratefully acknowledge the technical and financial support provided by the Ministry of Education and King Abdulaziz University, DSR, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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  1. Department of Physics, College of Science and Art, King Abdulaziz University, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia

    Manal M. Alkhamisi

  2. Department of Physics, Arab American University, Jenin, Palestine

    A. F. Qasrawi

  3. Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Arab American University, Jenin, 240, Palestine

    Hazem K. Khanfar

  4. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istinye University, 34010, Istanbul, Turkey

    A. F. Qasrawi

  5. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Sabah E. Algarni

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MMA wins the grand and together with SEA collected the optical data and determined values corresponding to Figs. 3 and 4. HKK prepared the optimum source material by laser welding technique. Qasrawi AF edited the article and determined the results based on Figs. 1, 2 and 5. He also carried out the Drude–Lorentz modeling to obtain data listed in Table 2. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

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Alkhamisi, M.M., Qasrawi, A.F., Khanfar, H.K. et al. Pt/PbSe optoelectronic receivers designed for 6G and terahertz communication technologies. Opt Quant Electron 55, 156 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-022-04434-9

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