On-Chip Integrated, Silicon-Graphene Plasmonic Schottky Photodetector with High Responsivity and Avalanche Photogain.

Goykhman, Ilya; Sassi, Ugo; Desiatov, Boris; Mazurski, Noa; Milana, Silvia; de Fazio, Domenico; Eiden, Anna; Khurgin, Jacob et al. · Nano Lett · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We report an on-chip integrated metal graphene-silicon plasmonic Schottky photodetector with 85 mA/W responsivity at 1.55 μm and 7% internal quantum efficiency. This is one order of magnitude higher than metal-silicon Schottky photodetectors operated in the same conditions. At a reverse bias of 3 V, we achieve avalanche multiplication, with 0.37A/W responsivity and avalanche photogain ∼2. This paves the way to graphene integrated silicon photonics.