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Conference Proceeding

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IEEE

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Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

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Electron Science Research Institute (ESRI)

RAS ID

13030

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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Karar, A. , Tan, C., Alameh, K. , & Lee, Y. (2011). Nano-patterned high-responsivity GaAs metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector. Paper presented at High-Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies (HONET) 2011, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Available here

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Abstract

In this paper, we use the finite difference time-domain (FDTD) method to optimize the light absorption of an ultrafast nano-grating plasmonic GaAs metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector (MSM-PD) employing double metal nano-gratings. The geometry of the MSM-PD is theoretically investigated, leading to improved light absorption near the design wavelength of GaAs due to plasmon-assisted electric and magnetic field concentration through a subwavelength aperture. Simulation results show up to 8- and 21-times light absorption enhancement for the single and double nano-grating structure, respectively, in comparison to conventional MSM-PDs. Experimentally, more than 4 times enhancement in photocurrent is demonstrated for a single top nano-grating MSM-PD in comparison with conventional MSM-PDs.

DOI

10.1109/HONET.2011.6149782

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10.1109/HONET.2011.6149782