• 文献标题:   Surface Plasmon Polariton Graphene Photodetectors
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ECHTERMEYER TJ, MILANA S, SASSI U, EIDEN A, WU M, LIDORIKIS E, FERRARI AC
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, photodetection, plasmonic, surface plasmon polariton, sensor
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Cambridge
  • 被引频次:   67
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02051
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

The combination of plasmonic nanoparticles and graphene enhances the responsivity and spectral selectivity of graphene-based photodetectors. However, the small area of the metal-graphene junction, where the induced-electron hole pairs separate, limits the photoactive region to submicron length scales. Here, we couple graphene with a plasmonic grating and exploit the resulting surface plasmon polaritons to deliver the collected photons to the junction region of a metal-graphene-metal photodetector. This gives a 400% enhancement of responsivity and a 1000% increase in photoactive length, combined with tunable spectral selectivity. The interference between surface plasmon polaritons and the incident wave introduces new functionalities, such as light flux attraction or repulsion from the contact edges, enabling the tailored design of the photodetector's spectral response. This architecture can also be used for surface plasmon biosensing with direct-electric-redout, eliminating the need of bulky optics.