The achievement of plasmonic-enhanced silicon-based terahertz emitters and detectors brings hope for the realization of integrated circuits that bring together electronics, photonics and terahertz functions on a single chip.
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Ducournau, G. Silicon photonics targets terahertz region. Nature Photon 12, 574–575 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-018-0242-0
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