Light trapping and surface plasmon enhanced high-performance NIR photodetector

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Luo, Lin Bao ^a   Zeng, Long Hui ^a   Xie, Chao ^a   Yu, Yong Qiang ^a   Liang, Feng Xia ^a   Wu, Chun Yan ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Hu, Ji Gang ^a  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84893289539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03914     Document Type: Article

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