Polarization-Insensitive Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Nanoplasmonic Structures for Ultrafast Ultraviolet Detectors

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 239-247

  Hu, Haifeng ^a   Zeng, Xie ^a   Tong, Chong ^a   Anderson, Wayne A ^a   Gan, Qiaoqiang ^a   Deng, Jie ^b   Jiang, Suhua ^c  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Metal semiconductor metal structure; Nanoplasmonics; Ultraviolet detector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877612457     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-012-9381-1     Document Type: Article

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