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Nanoplasma-enabled picosecond switches for ultrafast electronics
摘要： The broad applications of ultrawide-band signals and terahertz waves in quantum measurements, imaging and sensing techniques, advanced biological treatments, and very-high-data-rate communications have drawn extensive attention to ultrafast electronics. In such applications, high-speed operation of electronic switches is challenging, especially when high-amplitude output signals are required. For instance, although field-effect and bipolar junction devices have good controllability and robust performance, their relatively large output capacitance with respect to their ON-state current substantially limits their switching speed. Here we demonstrate a novel on-chip, all-electronic device based on a nanoscale plasma (nanoplasma) that enables picosecond switching of electric signals with a wide range of power levels. The very high electric field in the small volume of the nanoplasma leads to ultrafast electron transfer, resulting in extremely short time responses. We achieved an ultrafast switching speed, higher than 10 volts per picosecond, which is about two orders of magnitude larger than that of field-effect transistors and more than ten times faster than that of conventional electronic switches. We measured extremely short rise times down to five picoseconds, which were limited by the employed measurement set-up. By integrating these devices with dipole antennas, high-power terahertz signals with a power–frequency trade-off of 600 milliwatts terahertz squared were emitted, much greater than that achieved by the state of the art in compact solid-state electronics. The ease of integration and the compactness of the nanoplasma switches could enable their implementation in several fields, such as imaging, sensing, communications and biomedical applications.
关键词： picosecond switches,terahertz waves,ultrafast electronics,nanoplasma,electronic switches
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Nanoplasma properties in metallic clusters driven by a Gaussian laser beam in the presence of helical magnetic undulator
摘要： The motivation of present paper is the investigation of effective permittivity and absorption cross section of cluster nanoplasmas in the interaction of a Gaussian laser beam with a cluster of metallic nanoparticles, in the presence of a helical magnetic undulator. The static magnetic field of the undulator couples with the field of the laser wave, and forms a nonlinear force in the interaction region. As a result, the nonlinear force varies the plasmonic oscillations of the electron of nanoplasmas that leads to electron density modulation, which modifies absorption cross section and effective permittivity of nanoparticles. Using a perturbative method, we analytically derived the nonlinear dispersion waves and dielectric constant of metallic nanoparticles lattice (gold, silver, and copper) in the presence of a helical magnetic undulator. Numerical results indicate that with increasing the undulator magnetic field strength, absorption cross section of cluster nanoplasmas increases and absorption phenomenon occurs at frequencies close to the effective plasma frequency. Besides, with decreasing distance of nanoparticles in the cluster (and with increasing the nanoparticles radius), absorption cross section increases. We also found that the dielectric constant of the cluster nanoplasma medium increases with enhancing undulator magnetic field strength only near the effective plasmonic frequency. This concept opens a path toward new properties of cluster nanoplasmas as quantum dots, diagnostics, and sensors based on magnetic undulator structures.
关键词： Gaussian laser beam,Effective permittivity,Metallic clusters,Nanoplasma,Absorption cross section,Helical magnetic undulator
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Intense Laser Fields
摘要： Femtosecond laser pulses have opened new frontiers for the study of ultrafast phase transitions and nonequilibrium states of matter. In this Letter, we report on structural dynamics in atomic clusters pumped with intense near-infrared (NIR) pulses into a nanoplasma state. Employing wide-angle scattering with intense femtosecond x-ray pulses from a free-electron laser source, we find that highly excited xenon nanoparticles retain their crystalline bulk structure and density in the inner core long after the driving NIR pulse. The observed emergence of structural disorder in the nanoplasma is consistent with a propagation from the surface to the inner core of the clusters.
关键词： x-ray scattering,nanoparticles,nanoplasma,intense laser fields,ultrafast structural dynamics
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04