• Frontiers of Optoelectronics
  • Vol. 14, Issue 4, 445 (2021)
Zhenyao CHEN, Junjie MEI, Ye ZHANG, Jishu TAN, Qing XIONG, and Changhong CHEN*
Author Affiliations
  • Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s12200-019-0957-7 Cite this Article
    Zhenyao CHEN, Junjie MEI, Ye ZHANG, Jishu TAN, Qing XIONG, Changhong CHEN. Interface phonon polariton coupling to enhance graphene absorption[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2021, 14(4): 445 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Here we present a graphene photodetector of which the graphene and structural system infrared absorptions are enhanced by interface phonon polariton (IPhP) coupling. IPhPs are supported at the SiC/AlN interface of device structure and used to excite interband transitions of the intrinsic graphene under gated-field tuning. The simulation results show that at normal incidence the absorbance of graphene or system reaches up to 43% or closes to unity in a mid-infrared frequency range. In addition, we found the peak-absorption frequency is mainly decided by the AlN thickness, and it has a red-shift as the thickness decreases. This structure has great application potential in graphene infrared detection technology.
    Zhenyao CHEN, Junjie MEI, Ye ZHANG, Jishu TAN, Qing XIONG, Changhong CHEN. Interface phonon polariton coupling to enhance graphene absorption[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2021, 14(4): 445
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