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Nanoantenna Integrated Thermomechanical Infrared Detector

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We numerically studied the nanoantenna integrated thermomechanical mid-infrared detector working at room temperature based on bi-material structures. Three separate bilayer configurations are investigated and optimized for maximum thermomechanical deflection. The integrated optical nanoantennas are geometrically tuned to reach the highest optical absorption at 6 μm. Thermal time constants and fundamental noise equivalent powers of the three bilayer configurations are also calculated. We also discuss the potential implementation of our detector in infrared polarimetry.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.11604110) and National key research and development program of china (2016YFC0201300).

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  1. School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Ao Yang, Kecheng Yang, Xiaochao Tan, Junyu Li, Song Guo, Lun Zhou, Xin Tian, Huan Liu, Haisheng Song, Jiang Tang & Fei Yi

  2. Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Haisheng Song & Jiang Tang

  3. Department of Physics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200234, China

    Feng Liu

  4. Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Alexander Yutong Zhu

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA

    Qiushi Guo

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Yang, A., Yang, K., Tan, X. et al. Nanoantenna Integrated Thermomechanical Infrared Detector. Plasmonics 12, 1921–1927 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-016-0463-3

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