Plasmonic color filters for CMOS image sensor applications

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4349-4354

  Yokogawa, Sozo ^a,b   Burgos, Stanley P ^a   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

CMOS image sensor; hole array filter; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

AL FILMS; CMOS IMAGE SENSOR; COLOR FILTERS; DETECTION LIMITS; FILTERING FUNCTIONS; HOLE ARRAYS; LONG RANGE INTERACTIONS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR MODEL; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; PIXEL SIZE; PLASMONIC; PLASMONICS; PRIMARY COLORS; RANDOM DEFECTS; SI CMOS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY;

COLOR; CROSSTALK; DIGITAL CAMERAS; PLASMONS;

PIXELS;

EID: 84864658040     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl302110z     Document Type: Article

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