scholarly journals High-responsivity graphene photodetectors integrated on silicon microring resonators

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Schuler ◽  
J. E. Muench ◽  
A. Ruocco ◽  
O. Balci ◽  
D. van Thourhout ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Layer ◽  
Input Power ◽  
Optical Switches ◽  
Microring Resonator ◽  
Single Layer Graphene ◽  
Optical Receivers ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Si Photonics ◽  
Electro Optic ◽  
Voltage Responsivity

AbstractGraphene integrated photonics provides several advantages over conventional Si photonics. Single layer graphene (SLG) enables fast, broadband, and energy-efficient electro-optic modulators, optical switches and photodetectors (GPDs), and is compatible with any optical waveguide. The last major barrier to SLG-based optical receivers lies in the current GPDs’ low responsivity when compared to conventional PDs. Here we overcome this by integrating a photo-thermoelectric GPD with a Si microring resonator. Under critical coupling, we achieve >90% light absorption in a ~6 μm SLG channel along a Si waveguide. Cavity-enhanced light-matter interactions cause carriers in SLG to reach ~400 K for an input power ~0.6 mW, resulting in a voltage responsivity ~90 V/W, with a receiver sensitivity enabling our GPDs to operate at a 10−9 bit-error rate, on par with mature semiconductor technology, but with a natural generation of a voltage, rather than a current, thus removing the need for transimpedance amplification, with a reduction of energy-per-bit, cost, and foot-print.

scholarly journals Electrical tuning of the polarization state of light using graphene-integrated anisotropic metasurfaces

2017 ◽  
Vol 375 (2090) ◽  
pp. 20160061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shourya Dutta-Gupta ◽  
Nima Dabidian ◽  
Iskandar Kholmanov ◽  
Mikhail A. Belkin ◽  
Gennady Shvets
Keyword(s):  
Tilt Angle ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Polarization State ◽  
Dynamic Control ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Single Layer Graphene ◽  
Dynamic Polarization ◽  
Reflected Light ◽  
Electro Optic ◽  
The Way

Plasmonic metasurfaces have been employed for moulding the flow of transmitted and reflected light, thereby enabling numerous applications that benefit from their ultra-thin sub-wavelength format. Their appeal is further enhanced by the incorporation of active electro-optic elements, paving the way for dynamic control of light's properties. In this paper, we realize a dynamic polarization state generator using a graphene-integrated anisotropic metasurface (GIAM) that converts the linear polarization of the incident light into an elliptical one. This is accomplished by using an anisotropic metasurface with two principal polarization axes, one of which possesses a Fano-type resonance. A gate-controlled single-layer graphene integrated with the metasurface was employed as an electro-optic element controlling the phase and intensity of light polarized along the resonant axis of the GIAM. When the incident light is polarized at an angle to the resonant axis of the metasurface, the ellipticity of the reflected light can be dynamically controlled by the application of a gate voltage. Thus accomplished dynamic polarization control is experimentally demonstrated and characterized by measuring the Stokes polarization parameters. Large changes of the ellipticity and the tilt angle of the polarization ellipse are observed. Our measurements show that the tilt angle can be changed from positive values through zero to negative values while keeping the ellipticity constant, potentially paving the way to rapid ellipsometry and other characterization techniques requiring fast polarization shifting. This article is part of the themed issue ‘New horizons for nanophotonics’.

Comparative study of electron transfer on various graphene-metallic contacts

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (31) ◽  
pp. 1950384
Author(s):  
Di Lu ◽  
Yu-E Yang ◽  
Weichun Zhang ◽  
Caixia Wang ◽  
Jining Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transfer ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Annealing Treatment ◽  
Single Layer Graphene ◽  
Strain Effect ◽  
Graphene Surface ◽  
Layer Graphene ◽  
Metallic Contacts ◽  
Nonuniform Strain ◽  
Main Factor

We have investigated Raman spectra of the G and 2D lines of a single-layer graphene (SLG) with metallic contacts. The shift of the G and 2D lines is correlated to two different factors. Before performing annealing treatment or annealing under low temperature, the electron transfer on graphene surface is dominated by nonuniform strain effect. As the annealing treatment is enhanced, however, a suitable annealing treatment can eliminate the nonuniform strain effect where the relative work function (WF) between graphene and metal becomes a main factor to determine electronic transfer. Moreover, it is confirmed that the optimized annealing treatment can also decrease effectively the structural defect and induced disorder in graphene due to metallic contacts.

scholarly journals Millisecond lattice gasification for high-density CO2- and O2-sieving nanopores in single-layer graphene

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. eabf0116
Author(s):  
Shiqi Huang ◽  
Shaoxian Li ◽  
Luis Francisco Villalobos ◽  
Mostapha Dakhchoune ◽  
Marina Micari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Layer ◽  
High Density ◽  
Single Layer Graphene ◽  
Pore Density ◽  
Vacancy Defects ◽  
Carbon Gasification ◽  
Layer Graphene ◽  
Gas Molecules ◽  
Good Agreement

Etching single-layer graphene to incorporate a high pore density with sub-angstrom precision in molecular differentiation is critical to realize the promising high-flux separation of similar-sized gas molecules, e.g., CO2 from N2. However, rapid etching kinetics needed to achieve the high pore density is challenging to control for such precision. Here, we report a millisecond carbon gasification chemistry incorporating high density (>1012 cm−2) of functional oxygen clusters that then evolve in CO2-sieving vacancy defects under controlled and predictable gasification conditions. A statistical distribution of nanopore lattice isomers is observed, in good agreement with the theoretical solution to the isomer cataloging problem. The gasification technique is scalable, and a centimeter-scale membrane is demonstrated. Last, molecular cutoff could be adjusted by 0.1 Å by in situ expansion of the vacancy defects in an O2 atmosphere. Large CO2 and O2 permeances (>10,000 and 1000 GPU, respectively) are demonstrated accompanying attractive CO2/N2 and O2/N2 selectivities.

scholarly journals Enhanced ultraviolet absorption in graphene by aluminum and magnesium hole-arrays

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueling Cheng ◽  
Yunshan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Study ◽  
Uv Spectroscopy ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Hybrid Structure ◽  
Uv Absorption ◽  
Single Layer Graphene ◽  
Visible Range ◽  
Uv Spectrum ◽  
Hole Arrays ◽  
Uv Range

AbstractOptoelectronic devices in the UV range have many applications including deep-UV communications, UV photodetectors, UV spectroscopy, etc. Graphene has unique exciton resonances, that have demonstrated large photosensitivity across the UV spectrum. Enhancing UV absorption in graphene has the potential to boost the performance of the various opto-electronic devices. Here we report numerical study of UV absorption in graphene on aluminum and magnesium hole-arrays. The absorption in a single-layer graphene on aluminum and magnesium hole-arrays reached a maximum value of 28% and 30% respectively, and the absorption peak is tunable from the UV to the visible range. The proposed graphene hybrid structure does not require graphene to be sandwiched between different material layers and thus is easy to fabricate and allows graphene to interact with its surroundings.

Optical two-tone generation and SSB modulation using electro-optic modulator with suppressing redundant spectrum components

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Enokihara ◽  
Tadashi Kawai ◽  
Tetsuya Kawanishi
Keyword(s):  
Input Power ◽  
Intensity Level ◽  
Optical Signals ◽  
Single Sideband ◽  
Electro Optic ◽  
Rf Signals ◽  
Frequency Components ◽  
Optical Single Sideband ◽  
Tone Generation ◽  
Electro Optic Modulator

Doubled frequency optical two-tone generation and optical single sideband (SSB) modulation by the dual-electrode-type electro-optic (EO) modulator with a single Mach–Zehnder (MZ) interferometer were considered. We theoretically showed that redundant spectrum components in the modulated optical signals, which are caused by the imbalance of light splitting ratio between the two arms of the interferometer, are significantly suppressed by controlling the input power ratio of RF modulation signals applied to each electrode. This effect was confirmed by the experiment, where an optical two-tone with the redundant components 49.8 dB lower than the primary two-tone components in intensity level was obtained. This method is also valid for suppression of undesired frequency components of RF signals that are generated at a photo detector from the optical two-tone waves propagated through a dispersive optical fiber.

Mass spectrometry imaging of untreated wet cell membranes in solution using single-layer graphene

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heejin Lim ◽  
Sun Young Lee ◽  
Yereum Park ◽  
Hyeonggyu Jin ◽  
Daeha Seo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Mass Spectrometry Imaging ◽  
Cell Membranes ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Single Layer Graphene ◽  
Layer Graphene
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