Integrated Plasmonic Nanocircuits.

摘要

This is the final performance report for a program entitled: 'Integrated Plasmonic Nanocircuits'. The proposed effort aimed to develop nanoscale optoelectronic nanocircuit elements capable of converting electrical signals to optical signals and back. As part of the program, we developed some of the smallest optical sources and detectors to date. We also demonstrated that new functionalities can be obtained by bringing resonant metallic and semiconductor nanostructures together in optoelectronic devices. In such devices, the constituent materials perform simultaneous electronic and optical functions. This type of multi-functional devices allow for denser integration on a chip. The fabricated structures can find direct application in integrated biosensors and quantum optics experiments. Longer term, the constituent hybrid nanophotonics devices will find their way into a variety of communication, security, and computing systems that are critical to the DoD. In these systems they can serve as an efficient bridge between nanoscale electronic components and (diffraction-limited) dielectric photonics.