Terahertz light source device
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsKiwon MOON, Kyung Hyun PARK, Dong Woo PARK, Jun-Hwan SHIN, Eui Su LEE, Hyun Soo KIM, IL MIN LEE
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Abstract
Provided is a terahertz light source device including an antenna, a plurality of wire electrodes configured to connect the antenna to a power source, a capacitor connected to the wire electrodes between the antenna and the power source, and a plurality of resonance tunneling diodes connected to the wire electrodes between the capacitor and the antenna, and configured to generate a terahertz wave by coupling with the capacitor as a parallel resonance circuit with respect to the power source.
Claims11
A terahertz light source device comprising:
- an antenna;
- a plurality of wire electrodes configured to connect the antenna to a power source;
- a capacitor connected to the wire electrodes between the antenna and the power source;
- and
- a plurality of resonance tunneling diodes connected to the wire electrodes between the capacitor and the antenna, and configured to generate a terahertz wave by coupling with the capacitor as a parallel resonance circuit with respect to the power source,
- wherein the capacitor is disposed within a reference distance with any one of the resonance tunneling diodes,
- wherein each of the resonance tunneling diodes is arranged at each separation distance equal to the reference distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.