Silica nanocone array as a template for fabricating a plasmon induced hot electron photodetector

Zhiqiang Yang; Kang Du; Fanfan Lu; Yang Pang; Shijia Hua; Xuetao Gan; Wending Zhang; Soo Jin Chua; Ting Mei

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000294

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 3, 294(2019)

Silica nanocone array as a template for fabricating a plasmon induced hot electron photodetector On the Cover

Zhiqiang Yang¹, Kang Du¹, Fanfan Lu¹, Yang Pang¹, Shijia Hua¹, Xuetao Gan¹, Wending Zhang¹, Soo Jin Chua^2,3, and Ting Mei^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

²Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore

³LEES Program, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART), Singapore 138602, Singapore

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Paper Information

Category: Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Received: Oct. 19, 2018

Accepted: Jan. 3, 2019

Published Online: Feb. 20, 2019

The Author Email: Ting Mei (ting.mei@ieee.org)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000294

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