Efficient waveguide-integrated tunnel junction detectors at 1.6 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16376-16389

  Hobbs, Philip C D ^a   Laibowitz, Robert B ^b   Libsch, Frank R ^a   LaBianca, Nancy C ^a   Chiniwalla, Punit P ^c  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; INFRARED DETECTORS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

METAL-INSULATOR-METAL TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; PLANARIZED SILICON NANOWIRE WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONIC TRAVELLING WAVE STRUCTURE; THIN-FILM METAL ANTENNA FEEDING;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 37149011128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016376     Document Type: Article

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