Electronic Resource
Woodbury, NY
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Applied Physics Letters
73 (1998), S. 3815-3817
ISSN:
1077-3118
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
We report the effect of metal-island size variation in nanoparticle-enhanced photodetectors. Nanoparticle size was controlled by varying the deposition and annealing conditions used to produce the metal-island films. Increasing the size of silver-island particles fabricated onto 165 nm thick silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photodetectors resulted in a dramatic increase in the observed photocurrent. A nearly factor-of-20 photocurrent enhancement was observed for light of wavelength 800 nm, a significant improvement over previously reported results. The improvement is linked to two physical effects: the increased scattering efficiency of the larger nanoparticles and a qualitative change in the resonance characteristics of the metal-island film due to radiative coupling to the SOI waveguide modes. © 1998 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.122903
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