Plasmonic Nano-arrays for Enhanced Photoemission and Photodetection
Applied Physics
2018-02-14 v1
Abstract
Efficient conversion of photons to electrical energy has a wide variety of applications including imaging, energy harvesting, and infrared detection. The coupling of electromagnetic radiation to free electron oscillations at a metal interface results in enhanced electric fields tightly confined to the surface. Taking advantage of this nonlinear light-matter interaction, this work presents resonant surfaces optimized for combining electrical and photonic excitations in order to liberate electrons in a vacuum-channel device for applications ranging from enhanced photoemission to infrared photodetection.
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@article{arxiv.1712.04617,
title = {Plasmonic Nano-arrays for Enhanced Photoemission and Photodetection},
author = {Shiva Piltan and Dan Sievenpiper},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.04617},
year = {2018}
}