• 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