An invisible metal-semiconductor photodetector

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 380-385

  Fan, Pengyu ^a   Chettiar, Uday K ^b   Cao, Linyou ^a,c   Afshinmanesh, Farzaneh ^a   Engheta, Nader ^b   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

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EID: 84861709693     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.108     Document Type: Article

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