Surface plasmon-enhanced absorption in metal grating coupled terahertz quantum well photodetectors

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1113-1119

  Guo, Xuguang ^a   Zhang, Rong ^a   Cao, Juncheng ^a   Liu, Huichun ^b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Metal grating; quantum well photodetectors; surface plasmon polaritons; terahertz

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; COUPLING SCHEME; DEVICE PARAMETERS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; INCIDENT LIGHT; LARGE COMPONENTS; MAXIMUM VALUES; METAL GRATING; MULTIQUANTUM WELLS; P-POLARIZED; QUANTUM WELL PHOTODETECTORS; RESONANT ABSORPTION; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM WELLS; TOP CONTACT; WELL GROWTH;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PHOTODETECTORS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 84863007455     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2012.2202637     Document Type: Article

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