• 文献标题:   Graphene quantum interference photodetector
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ALAM M, VOSS PL
  • 作者关键词:   decoherence, graphene nanoribbon, phase coherence, photodetector, quantum interference, resonant tunneling
  • 出版物名称:   BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   2190-4286
  • 通讯作者地址:   Georgia Inst Technol
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.3762/bjnano.6.74
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

this work, a graphene quantum interference (QI) photodetector was simulated in two regimes of operation. The structure consists of a graphene nanoribbon, Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), which exhibits a strongly resonant transmission of electrons of specific energies. In the first regime of operation (that of a linear photodetector), low intensity light couples two resonant energy levels, resulting in scattering and differential transmission of current with an external quantum efficiency of up to 5.2%. In the second regime of operation, full current switching is caused by the phase decoherence of the current due to a strong photon flux in one or both of the interferometer arms in the same MZI structure. Graphene QI photodetectors have several distinct advantages: they are of very small size, they do not require p- and n-doped regions, and they exhibit a high external quantum efficiency.