Surface plasmon antenna with gold line and space grating for enhanced visible light detection by a silicon-on-insulator metal-oxide-semiconductor pohotodiode

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 346-351

  Satoh, Hiroaki ^a   Inokawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enhanced light absorption; polarized light response; SOI MOS photodiode; spectroscopic response; surface plasmon (SP) antenna

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; GOLD LINES; HIGH-SPEED OPERATION; INCIDENT LIGHT; LINE-AND-SPACE; METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; METALLIC STRUCTURES; MOS GATES; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; POLARIZED LIGHT RESPONSE; RESONANCE MECHANISM; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTROSCOPIC RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL CONDITION; SURFACE PLASMON ANTENNA; SURFACE PLASMONS; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION; VOLTAGE GAIN;

ANTENNAS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PLASMONS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

EID: 84858395740     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2011.2171194     Document Type: Article

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