Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Surface plasmon induced direct detection of long wavelength photons

  • Jinchao Tong,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Yue Qu,
  • Zhengji Xu,
  • Zhiming Huang,
  • Dao Hua Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01828-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The detection of terahertz and millimeter waves has many applications, but there are still limitations in their technical performance. Here, Tong et al. demonstrate the direct detection of long-wavelength radiation through surface plasmon excitation and a corresponding improvement in detection performance.