Metal Hole Arrays as Resonant Photo-Coupler for Charge Sensitive Infrared Phototransistors

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 384-390

  Nickels, Patrick ^a   Matsuda, Shinpei ^a   Ueda, Takeji ^a   Komiyama, Susumu ^a   An, Zhenghua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Intersubband transition; metal hole array photo coupler; quantum efficiency; quantum well infrared phototransistor; surface plasmon polariton resonance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008008499     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2035822     Document Type: Article

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