Nano-Antenna Arrays for the Infrared Regime
Conference: WSA 2014 - 18th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas
03/12/2014 - 03/13/2014 at Erlangen, Germany
Proceedings: WSA 2014
Pages: 8Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Szakmany, Gergo P.; Orlov, Alexei O.; Bernstein, Gary H.; Porod, Wolfgang (Center for Nano Science and Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA)
Bareiss, Mario; Lugli, Paolo; Russer, Johannes A.; Jirauschek, Christian; Russer, Peter (Institute for Nanoelectronics, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany)
Ivrlac, Michel T.; Nossek, Josef A. (Institute for Circuit Theory and Signal Processing, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany)
Abstract:
Infrared detectors for the long-wave infrared range (LWIR) are of special interest due to their ability to detect black-body radiation of objects at room temperature. Such detectors are attractive candidates for various applications including energy harvesting, target tracking, and thermal imaging, but their applications to communication systems have been largely unexplored. In this paper, we combine our previous work on antenna-coupled thermocouples with a new approach to near-eld-coupled nano-antennas, which might open up the possibility of obtaining carrier phase a?er envelope demodulation.