Nanometre-scale germanium photodetector enhanced by a near-infrared dipole antenna

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 226-229

  Tang, Liang ^a   Kocabas, Sukru Ekin ^a   Latif, Salman ^a   Okyay, Ali K ^b   Ly Gagnon, Dany Sebastien ^a   Saraswat, Krishna C ^b   Miller, David A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; ACTIVE VOLUMES; CRITICAL CHALLENGES; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLARIZATION CONTRAST;

DIFFRACTION; GERMANIUM; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT; PHOTONS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 41549137795     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.30     Document Type: Article

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