Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 14, Issue 4, 445(2021)

Interface phonon polariton coupling to enhance graphene absorption

Zhenyao CHEN, Junjie MEI, Ye ZHANG, Jishu TAN, Qing XIONG, and Changhong CHEN*
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  • Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    Here we present a graphene photodetector of which the graphene and structural system infrared absorptions are enhanced by interface phonon polariton (IPhP) coupling. IPhPs are supported at the SiC/AlN interface of device structure and used to excite interband transitions of the intrinsic graphene under gated-field tuning. The simulation results show that at normal incidence the absorbance of graphene or system reaches up to 43% or closes to unity in a mid-infrared frequency range. In addition, we found the peak-absorption frequency is mainly decided by the AlN thickness, and it has a red-shift as the thickness decreases. This structure has great application potential in graphene infrared detection technology.

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    Zhenyao CHEN, Junjie MEI, Ye ZHANG, Jishu TAN, Qing XIONG, Changhong CHEN. Interface phonon polariton coupling to enhance graphene absorption[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2021, 14(4): 445

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    Paper Information

    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Aug. 3, 2019

    Accepted: Oct. 8, 2019

    Published Online: Jan. 10, 2022

    The Author Email: Changhong CHEN (ch_chen@hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-019-0957-7

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