{"title":"Nanophotonic hot electron devices for UV Si-photonics","authors":"Xiaoxin Wang, Zhiyuan Wang, Jifeng Liu","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548796","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We report solar-bind UV detectors based on nanophotonic metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structures. The nanostructured metal acts as the UV absorber, while the large meta/oxide interfacial energy barrier (>4 eV) eliminates the solar response. Quantum efficiencies >100% are demonstrated due to hot-electron induced avalanche gain in Si.","PeriodicalId":337671,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548796","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We report solar-bind UV detectors based on nanophotonic metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structures. The nanostructured metal acts as the UV absorber, while the large meta/oxide interfacial energy barrier (>4 eV) eliminates the solar response. Quantum efficiencies >100% are demonstrated due to hot-electron induced avalanche gain in Si.