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APL PHOTONICS
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4973537
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- National Science Foundation [1507749]
- United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
- Danish National Research Foundation Center for Nanostructured Graphene [DNRF103]
- Danish International Network Programme with Israel
- Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation [1370-00124B, 4070-00158B]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1507749] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Recent experiments have shown that the plasmonic assisted internal photoemission from a metal to silicon can be significantly enhanced by introducing a monolayer of graphene between the two media. This is despite the limited absorption in a monolayer of undoped graphene (similar to pi alpha = 2.3%). Here we propose a physical model where surface plasmon polaritons enhance the absorption in a single-layer graphene by enhancing the field along the interface. The relatively long relaxation time in graphene allows for multiple attempts for the carrier to overcome the Schottky barrier and penetrate into the semiconductor. Interface disorder is crucial to overcome the momentum mismatch in the internal photoemission process. Our results show that quantum efficiencies in the range of few tens of percent are obtainable under reasonable experimental assumptions. This insight may pave the way for the implementation of compact, high efficiency silicon based detectors for the telecom range and beyond. (C) 2017 Author(s).
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