Nature Photonics 6, 121–126 (2012); published online 15 January 2012; retracted online 8 March 2013.

In this Article, we presented a nanogap continuous-wave terahertz photomixer that exhibited a two orders of magnitude intensity enhancement compared with a photomixer with conventional interdigitated electrodes, which we used as a reference device. We estimated the powers of the devices based on the blackbody power of a Hg lamp, as described in the Methods section and shown in Fig. 3b of this Article. After receiving a communication from J. Mangeney, R. Colombelli, E. Peytavit, J. F. Lampin, M. Jarrahi, S. Barbieri, M. Wanke and M. A. Belkin, we measured the absolute output of our device using a loaned pyrodetector (Gentec-EO, THZ1.5B-BL-USB). We measured the absolute output power to be about 1 μW, instead of 100 μW as initially estimated and shown in Fig. 3b. Due to this error, we wish to retract the Article, even though the reported relative enhancement and the idea of using nanogap electrodes are still valid. We apologize to the readers for any adverse consequences that may have resulted from the paper's publication.