2009/02/18 by Bryan M. Wong, Bryan M Wong, Alfredo M. Morales +1
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #Carbon nanotube #Carbon nanotube quantum dot #Infrared #Intensity (physics) #Photoconductivity #Photocurrent #Photonic Crystals and Applications #Photonic crystal #Photonics #Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies #cond-mat.mes-hall #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0022-3727/42/5/055111
published as Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 42, 055111 (2009) · Accepted by the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
openalex publication_date 2009/02/18 · arxiv created 2010/04/24 · arxiv updated 2010/04/27 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present photocurrent power-enhancement calculations of a carbon nanotube p–n junction electromagnetically coupled to a highly efficient photonic structure. Particular attention is paid to a GaAs photonic structure specifically modified to increase the intensity of infrared light onto the nanotube region for effective energy conversion. Using finite-difference time-domain calculations, we compute a significant increase in electric field intensity in the nanotube region which enables an estimation of power efficiency. These results demonstrate the potential of using a photonic structure to couple large-scale infrared sources with carbon nanotubes while still retaining all the unique optoelectronic properties found at the nanoscale.