The enhanced terahertz absorption of metal gratings/Si-based blocked-impurity-band (BIB) hybrid structures.

Autor: Tong, Wulin, Chen, Yulu, Wang, Lin, Wang, Bingbing, Guo, Wanlong, Liu, Wenhui, Chen, Dong, Hu, Yongshan, Wang, Xiaodong
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Zdroj: Optical & Quantum Electronics; Nov2021, Vol. 53 Issue 11, p1-13, 13p
Abstrakt: Terahertz (THz) detecting technology has attracted many attentions. In this work, a novel THz detector based on a metal gratings/Si-based blocked-impurity-band (BIB) hybrid structure was designed and theoretically calculated. The highly integrated hybrid structure was found useful for modulating the response wavelength and improving the responsivity of Si-based BIB detector. The enhanced THz absorption of the hybrid device structure of metal gratings and Si-based BIB absorption layer was carefully investigated by finite difference time domain. The peak wavelength can be moved from 26.9 to 36.53 μm when metal gratings (period: 32 μm) were added on the Si-based BIB. The peak absorptivity of the hybrid detector was increased by 87.3 % with the metal gratings, compared with that of conventional Si-based BIB detector. Our results indicate that a highly integrated hybrid device structure can replace the divided band filters, and realize selective resonant enhanced absorption and tunable THz spectral response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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