Micro and Nanophotonics for Semiconductor Infrared Detectors Towards an Ultimate Uncooled Device /

• Main Author: Jakšić, Zoran (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Materials science.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Nanotechnology.; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Materials Science.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

The advent of microelectromechanic system (MEMS) technologies and nanotechnologies  has resulted in a multitude of structures and devices with ultracompact dimensions and with vastly enhanced or even completely novel properties. In the field of photonics it resulted in the appearance of new paradigm...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Part I Introduction- A Path to an Ideal Photonic Detector
• Infrared Detector Performance and Main Figures of Merit
• Classification of IR Detectors
• Part II Photon Management
• Nonimaging and Imaging Optical Concentrators
• Refractive Concentrators
• Part III Charge Carrier Management (Thermal Noise Engineering)
• Nonequilibrium Suppression of Auger Generation-Recombination
• Limits of Nonequilibrium Detector Operation.