3D Nanopillar optical antenna photodetectors

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 25489-25496

  Senanayake, Pradeep ^a   Hung, Chung Hong ^a   Shapiro, Joshua ^a   Scofield, Adam ^a   Lin, Andrew ^a   Williams, Benjamin S ^a   Huffaker, Diana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GOLD COATINGS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ENHANCED ABSORPTION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; GEOMETRICAL CONTROL; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANO-PILLAR ARRAYS; PHOTORESPONSE MEASUREMENTS; PROPAGATING SURFACE PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

NANOANTENNAS;

EID: 84869022045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.025489     Document Type: Article

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