Plasmonic Enhanced Optoelectronic Devices

Plasmonic metal nanostructures have recently attracted extensive research and developed into a promise approach for enhancing the performance of various optoelectronic devices. This brief article reviews recent research advances on the plasmonic enhanced optoelectronic devices and highlights a variety of strategies of incorporating plasmonic nanostructures into different optoelectronics such as solar cells, light-emitting diode, and multicolor photodetector, etc. In addition, the benefits of using various plasmonic metal nanostructures are discussed and the resulting enhancement mechanisms are displayed and summarized.