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
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