Closing the THz gap with Dirac semimetals

Carlo Rizza; Alessandro Molle

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-00812-w

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- Closing the THz gap with Dirac semimetals
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 11, Issue 6, Pages: 1011-1012(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.University of L'Aquila, Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, I-67100, L'Aquila, Italy
  2.Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi (IMM), unit of Agrate Brianza, via C. Olivetti 2, 20864, Agrate Brianza, Italy
- Author bio：
  
  Carlo Rizza (carlo.rizza@univaq.it)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-00812-w
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- Published：30 June 2022，
  
  Published Online：06 May 2022，
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Rizza, C. & Molle, A. Closing the THz gap with Dirac semimetals. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 1011-1012 (2022).
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Rizza, C. & Molle, A. Closing the THz gap with Dirac semimetals. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 1011-1012 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-00812-w.

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High-performance THz photodetection is unprecedentedly accessed by integrating a topological Dirac (Weyl) semimetal in a carefully designed antenna at deep-subwavelength scales.

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