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Ion-Beam Modified Terahertz GaAs Photoconductive Antenna
Ion-implanted photoconductive GaAs terahertz (THz) antennas were demonstrated to deliver both high-efficiency and high-power THz emitters, which are attributed to excellent carrier acceleration and fast carrier trapping for THz generations by analyzing ultrafast carrier dynamics at subpicosecond scale. The implantation distance at over 2.5 μm is deep enough to make defects (Ga vacancies, As Ga + …, etc.) quite few; hence, a few with good mobility similar to bare GaAs ensures excellent carrier acceleration in shallow distance <1.0 μm as photo carriers are generated by the pump laser. The implantation dosage is carefully optimized to make carrier trapping very fast, and screen effects by photo-generated carriers are significantly suppressed, which increases the THz radiation power of SI-GaAs antennas by two orders of magnitude. Under the same photo-excitation conditions (pump laser power, bias voltage), photocurrents from GaAs antennas with optimum conditions 300 keV, 5 × 1014 cm−2 for H implantation are decreased by two orders of magnitude; meanwhile, the THz radiation is enhanced by over four times, which means that the electrical-to-THz power conversion efficiency is improved by a factor of over 1600.
Part of the book: Advances in Photodetectors