Journal article
In-Plane Detection of Guided Surface Plasmons for High-Speed Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits
Evgeniy Panchenko, Jasper J Cadusch, Ori Avayu, Tal Ellenbogen, Timothy D James, Daniel Gomez, Ann Roberts
ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES | WILEY | Published : 2018
Abstract
Constrains on the speed of modern digital integrated circuits are dominated by the metallic interconnects between logic gates. Surface plasmon polaritons have potential to overcome this limitation and greatly increase the operating speed of future digital devices. Nevertheless, an ongoing issue is the compatibility of modern planar microelectronic circuits with current methods for detecting surface plasmons. Here, a new approach to in-plane surface plasmon polariton detection is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The design is based on metal–semiconductor–metal photodetectors that are acknowledged as having one of the best speed characteristics among photodetectors. In the design, the..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research was supported under the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number DP160100983). This work was performed in part at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) in the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF). D.G. acknowledges the ARC for support through a Future Fellowship (FT140100514). E.P. conceived the concept, performed numerical simulations, fabricated and characterized the samples. J.J.C. assisted with fabrication. O.A. performed near-field scanning optical microscopy measurements. T.D.J., D.G., T.E. and A.R. provided oversight of the work. All authors discussed the experimental findings and analysis and contributed to writing the manuscript.