DocumentCode
2306939
Title
High-detectivity quantum well infrared photodetector enhanced by surface plasmons
Author
Wu, Wei ; Mohseni, Hooman
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
fYear
2010
fDate
7-11 Nov. 2010
Firstpage
710
Lastpage
711
Abstract
Periodic holes array perforated in gold film is used to convert the normal-incident infrared light to surface plasmon waves, which can excite the intersubband transitions in the quantum wells (QWs) and enhance the optical absorption.
Keywords
finite difference time-domain analysis; gold; infrared detectors; metallic thin films; optical arrays; photodetectors; quantum well devices; semiconductor device models; surface plasmons; 3D FDTD modeling; Au; gold film; intersubband transitions; normal-incident infrared light; optical absorption; periodic holes array; quantum well infrared photodetector; surface plasmons;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location
Denver, CO
ISSN
-
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5368-9
Electronic_ISBN
-
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5699086
Filename
5699086
Link To Document