Large-Area Plasmonic-Crystal-Hot-Electron-Based Photodetectors

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 950-957

  García De Arquer, F Pelayo ^a   Mihi, Agustín ^a   Konstantatos, Gerasimos ^a  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

hot carriers; internal photoemission; photodetectors; plasmonic crystal; soft nanoimprint lithography

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; HOT CARRIERS; HOT ELECTRONS; INFRARED DEVICES; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS;

HOT CARRIER GENERATION; INTERNAL PHOTOEMISSION; LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING; LIGHT ENERGY HARVESTING; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; METAL SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACE; PLASMONIC CRYSTALS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84937037090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00149     Document Type: Article

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