Nanoantenna absorbers for thermal detectors

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1194-1196

  Zhu, Hai ^a   Yi, Fei ^a   Cubukcu, Ertugrul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared detectors; nanopatterning; numerical simulation; resonance light scattering

Indexed keywords

AREAL COVERAGE; METAL LAYER; MIDINFRARED; NANOANTENNAS; NANOPATTERNING; NUMERICAL STUDIES; RESONANCE LIGHT SCATTERING; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE; THERMAL DETECTORS; THERMAL INFRARED DETECTORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIOUS METALS;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 84862270522     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2199745     Document Type: Article

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