Closing the THz gap with Dirac semimetals

Carlo Rizza; Alessandro Molle

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-00812-w

Closing the THz gap with Dirac semimetals

Light Sci Appl. 2022 May 6;11(1):124. doi: 10.1038/s41377-022-00812-w.

Authors

Carlo Rizza¹, Alessandro Molle²

Affiliations

¹ University of L'Aquila, Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, I-67100, L'Aquila, Italy. carlo.rizza@univaq.it.
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.

Abstract

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