Harvesting light at the nanoscale by GaAs-gold nanowire arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 17293-17297

  Collin, Stéphane ^a   Pardo, Fabrice ^a   Bardou, Nathalie ^a   Lemâitre, Aristide ^a   Averin, Stanislav ^a   Pelouard, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

ABSORBING LAYERS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; GAAS; GOLD NANOWIRE; METAL SEMICONDUCTOR METAL PHOTODETECTOR; NANO SCALE; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; SCHOTTKY CONTACTS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 80052253618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.017293     Document Type: Article

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