An investigation of electron mobility in Leucaena Leucocephala Wood Plastic Composite for THz photoconductive antenna radiation enhancement

Author

Suzeyhareda, A.H. ; Awang, Aziati H. ; Azlan, A.A. ; Ali, M.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Politek. Port Dickson, Port Dickson, Malaysia

fYear

2014

Firstpage

237

Lastpage

240

Abstract

Photoconductive antenna (PCA) is promising devices that are most frequently used in Terahertz (THz) generation and detection system. However, THz PCA has limitation due to low output power (μW) and inefficient sources. Substrate material is one of parameters considered to enhance the THz output power radiation of PCA. This paper is aimed to investigate the electron mobility in Leucaena Leucocephala (Local Malaysian name Petai Belalang) Wood Plastic Composite for THz PCA radiation enhancement using Hall-effect measurement system (ECOPIA HMS-3000) equipment by 300 Kelvin room temperature with variance input currents. Data gathered by this material is compared with material made of 100% polypropylene polymer relatively with the same data input and supported by the literature research results.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; ecocomposites; electron mobility; filled polymers; photoconducting materials; terahertz materials; terahertz waves; wood; THz photoconductive antenna radiation enhancement; electron mobility; hall-effect measurement system; polypropylene polymer; substrate material; temperature 300 K; wood plastic composite; Antennas; Electric variables measurement; Electromagnetics; Principal component analysis; Substrates; Thickness measurement; Hall-effect measurement; Leucaena Leucocephala Wood Plastic Composite (WPC); Terahertz (THz); photoconductive antenna (PCA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics (APACE), 2014 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6602-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APACE.2014.7043790

Filename

7043790