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Plasmonic Enhanced Optoelectronic Devices

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Plasmonic metal nanostructures have recently attracted extensive research and developed into a promise approach for enhancing the performance of various optoelectronic devices. This brief article reviews recent research advances on the plasmonic enhanced optoelectronic devices and highlights a variety of strategies of incorporating plasmonic nanostructures into different optoelectronics such as solar cells, light-emitting diode, and multicolor photodetector, etc. In addition, the benefits of using various plasmonic metal nanostructures are discussed and the resulting enhancement mechanisms are displayed and summarized.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project Code, 21373144), and the National Research Foundation of Singapore (CREATE Programme of Nanomaterials for Energy and Water Management and NRF-RF2009-04). This is also a project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Project Code, SBK201341597).

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  1. Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon Based Functional Materials and Devices and Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China

    Zhiqiang Liang, Jun Sun & Lin Jiang

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

    Yueyue Jiang & Xiaodong Chen

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Liang, Z., Sun, J., Jiang, Y. et al. Plasmonic Enhanced Optoelectronic Devices. Plasmonics 9, 859–866 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-014-9682-7

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