An analysis for the broad-band absorption enhancement using plasmonic structures on uncooled infrared detector pixels

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8353, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lulec, Sevil Z ^a   Kucuk, Seniz E ^a   Battal, Enes ^b   Okyay, Ali K ^b   Tanrikulu, M Yusuf ^a   Akin, Tayfun ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

absorption enhancement; Infra red imaging; microbolometer; surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; PLASMONS; SILICON NITRIDE; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; MICROBOLOMETER; OPTIMIZED STRUCTURES; RESONANT PLASMON MODES; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; UNCOOLED INFRARED DETECTORS; UNPOLARIZED RADIATION;

PIXELS;

EID: 84883775108     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.964549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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