Compact graphene plasmonic slot photodetector on silicon-on-insulator with high responsivity (Conference Presentation)

Zhizhen Ma; Kazuya Kikunage; Hao Wang; Shuai Sun; Rubab Amin; Mario Miscuglio; Hamed Dalir; Volker Sorger

doi:10.1117/12.2524228

8 March 2019 Compact graphene plasmonic slot photodetector on silicon-on-insulator with high responsivity (Conference Presentation)

Zhizhen Ma, Kazuya Kikunage, Hao Wang, Shuai Sun, Rubab Amin, Mario Miscuglio, Hamed Dalir, Volker Sorger

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Proceedings Volume 10927, Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures IX; 109270V (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2524228
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Graphene has extraordinary electro-optic properties and is therefore a promising candidate for monolithic photonic devices such as photodetectors. However, the integration of this atom-thin layer material with bulky photonic components usually results in a weak light-graphene interaction leading to large device lengths limiting electro-optic performance. In contrast, here we demonstrate a plasmonic slot graphene photodetector on silicon-on-insulator platform with high-responsivity given the 5 µm-short device length. We observe that the maximum photocurrent, and hence the highest responsivity, scales inversely with the slot width. Using a dual-lithography step, we realize 15 nm narrow slots that show a 15-times higher responsivity per unit device-length compared to photonic graphene photodetectors. Furthermore, we reveal that the back-gated electrostatics is overshadowed by channel-doping contributions induced by the contacts of this ultra-short channel graphene photodetector. This leads to quasi charge neutrality, which explains both the previously-unseen offset between the maximum photovoltaic-based photocurrent relative to graphene’s Dirac point and the observed non-ambipolar transport. Such micrometer compact and absorption-efficient photodetectors allow for short-carrier pathways in next-generation photonic components, while being an ideal testbed to study short-channel carrier physics in graphene optoelectronics.

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Zhizhen Ma, Kazuya Kikunage, Hao Wang, Shuai Sun, Rubab Amin, Mario Miscuglio, Hamed Dalir, and Volker Sorger "Compact graphene plasmonic slot photodetector on silicon-on-insulator with high responsivity (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10927, Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures IX, 109270V (8 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2524228

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