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Study of terahertz radiation emitted using spintronic effects
Jechumtál, Jiří ; Nádvorník, Lukáš (advisor) ; Kašpar, Zdeněk (referee)
Effective emission of picosecond terahertz (THz) pulses using optical femtosecond pul- ses is the basis of THz spectroscopy in the time domain. Recent studies have shown that ultrafast optical excitation of thin metal magnetic multilayers leads to effective emission of THz pulses by converting the spin current to electric current. This work focuses on deter- mining the absolute emission and conversion efficiency of spintronic emitters from several manufacturers. Our comparison suggests that efficiency comparable to highly optimized spintronic emitters can be achieved by utilizing multilayer manufacturing capabilites of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University. The work also demon- strates the significant influence of interface quality on the throughput of ultrafast spin currents. Furthermore, the work describes a saturation effect observed in the relation be- tween emission and optical excitation fluency, which defines suitable excitation conditions for scaling the THz emission to higher electric fields. The observed spectral dependence of emission on fluence complements the discussion about the nature of ultrafast spin current formation. 1
Terahertz radiation in nanostructures
Hendrych, Erik ; Ostatnický, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kozák, Martin (referee)
We explore conductivity of nanostructures in the terahertz range. We model the nanostructure as a square potential well with a barrier inside. We examine how the conductivity depends on temperature, material constants and dimensions of the potential well. The conductivity of the material determines the complex refractive index and thus influences its optical properties such as reflexivity, transmittance and attenuation coefficient. We construct the functional dependency of the conductivity on the electric field frequency. The maxima of this functional dependency correspond to spectral lines. We examined the dependency of the frequencies of the maxima (spectral lines) on various parameters. We got the most interesting result when we continuously changed the position of the barrier inside the potential well. For different heights of the barrier we got qualitatively different results. With high barrier the system behaves as two separate potential wells where we can see monotonous functional dependency of the spectral lines on the position of the barrier. With low potential barrier we get oscillating dependencies. For gallium arsenide and 2 nm width of the potential barrier, high barrier is higher than 1 eV, while low barrier is lower than 0, 05 eV.

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