• DocumentCode
    2751860
  • Title

    Optical antenna design for nanophotodiodes

  • Author

    Going, Ryan ; Seok, Tae Joon ; Lakhani, Amit ; Eggleston, Michael ; Kim, Myung-Ki ; Wu, Ming C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    9-13 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    735
  • Lastpage
    736
  • Abstract
    Guidelines for designing an optical antenna for optimizing the performance of a nanophotodiode are proposed. A nanopatch design is simulated with over 70% absorption efficiency using germanium as the absorber.
  • Keywords
    antennas; elemental semiconductors; germanium; nanophotonics; photodiodes; Ge; absorption efficiency; nanopatch design; nanophotodiodes; optical antenna design; Absorption; Antenna theory; Dipole antennas; Germanium; Gold;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Arlington, VA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8940-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHO.2011.6110760
  • Filename
    6110760