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ArticleScientific reports2017

Near-field terahertz probes with room-temperature nanodetectors for subwavelength resolution imaging.

Oleg Mitrofanov, Leonardo Viti, Enrico Dardanis, Maria Caterina Giordano, Daniele Ercolani, Antonio Politano, Lucia Sorba, Miriam S Vitiello

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Oleg MitrofanovUniversity College London, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, London, WC1E 7JE, UK.
Leonardo VitiNEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa, 56127, Italy.
Enrico DardanisNEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa, 56127, Italy.
Maria Caterina GiordanoNEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa, 56127, Italy.
Daniele ErcolaniNEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa, 56127, Italy.
Antonio PolitanoUniversità degli Studi della Calabria, Dipartimento di Fisica, via Ponte Bucci, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy.
Lucia SorbaNEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa, 56127, Italy.
Miriam S VitielloNEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa, 56127, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Near-field imaging with terahertz (THz) waves is emerging as a powerful technique for fundamental research in photonics and across physical and life sciences. Spatial resolution beyond the diffraction limit can be achieved by collecting THz waves from an object through a small aperture placed in the near-field. However, light transmission through a sub-wavelength size aperture is fundamentally limited by the wave nature of light. Here, we conceive a novel architecture that exploits inherently strong evanescent THz field arising within the aperture to mitigate the problem of vanishing transmission. The sub-wavelength aperture is originally coupled to asymmetric electrodes, which activate the thermo-electric THz detection mechanism in a transistor channel made of flakes of black-phosphorus or InAs nanowires. The proposed novel THz near-field probes enable room-temperature sub-wavelength resolution coherent imaging with a 3.4 THz quantum cascade laser, paving the way to compact and versatile THz imaging systems and promising to bridge the gap in spatial resolution from the nanoscale to the diffraction limit.

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PMCPMC5347152

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