Tunable hot-carrier photodetection beyond the bandgap spectral limit

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 412-418

  Lao, Yan Feng ^a   Perera, A G Unil ^a   Li, L H ^b   Khanna, S P ^b   Linfield, E H ^b   Liu, H C ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ENERGY GAP; ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTONS; WAVELENGTH;

COLD CARRIERS; CUTOFF WAVELENGTHS; LONG WAVELENGTH; LONG-WAVELENGTH INFRARED; PHOTO DETECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE; SPECTRAL RESPONSE;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 84899640734     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.80     Document Type: Article

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