Patent ID: 8053271

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a device for managing radiation, the method comprising: manufacturing a field effect transistor including a device channel, a first edge contact adjacent to a first edge of the device channel and a second edge contact adjacent to a second edge of the device channel, the manufacturing the field effect transistor including: determining a point on the device channel at which an amplitude of a fundamental frequency of a plasma wave induced in the device channel by the radiation is at or proximate to its maximum when the first edge and the second edge comprise substantially equal bias potentials; and forming at least one channel contact contacting the device channel at the point; manufacturing at least one additional field effect transistor including a device channel, a first edge contact adjacent to a first edge of the device channel, a second edge contact adjacent to a second edge of the device channel, a gate, and a channel contact contacting the device channel of the second field effect transistor at a point on the device channel at which an amplitude of a fundamental frequency of a plasma wave induced in the device channel by the radiation is at or proximate to its maximum when the first edge and the second edge comprise substantially equal bias potentials; and connecting at least one component of each of the field effect transistor and the at least one additional field effect transistor with a set of connectors.