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Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Nano-photodetector for Green Light Detection

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Light manipulation is vitally important for one-dimensional semiconductor nanostructure-based photodetectors which have great potential in future optoelectronic circuits, imaging technique, and light-wave communication. In this paper, we reported a plasmonic gold nanoparticle (AuNP)-decorated nano-photodetector for green light sensing. It is found that the as-fabricated device exhibits obvious increase in light absorption in the range from 400 to 550 nm, after functionalization of plasmonic AuNPs. Further device performance analysis reveals that the photocurrent of the plasmonic photodetector was increased by more than sevenfold, compared with that without coating. What is more, both responsivity and detectivity are found to increase as well. According to theoretical simulation based on the finite element method (FEM), the observed enhancement in device performance can be attributed to the surface plasmon-induced direct electron injection from the metal nanoparticles to the semiconductor nanostructures.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, 21101051, 21501038, and 61575059), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2012HGCX0003, 2013HGCH0012, 2014HGCH0005), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (103471013), and the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (Grant no. J2014AKZR0036).

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  1. School of Electronic Sciences and Applied Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, 230009, People’s Republic of China

    Lin-Bao Luo, Kun Zheng, Cai-Wang Ge, Yi-Feng Zou, Rui Lu, Yuan Wang, Dan-Dan Wang & Teng-Fei Zhang

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering and Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials and Devices, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui, 230009, People’s Republic of China

    Feng-Xia Liang

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Luo, LB., Zheng, K., Ge, CW. et al. Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Nano-photodetector for Green Light Detection. Plasmonics 11, 619–625 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-015-0091-3

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