Plasmonic nanorectennas for energy conversion

Richard Osgood III; Joel B. Carlson; Brian R. Kimball; David P. Ziegler; James R. Welch; Lauren E. Belton; Gustavo E. Fernandes; Zhijun Liu; Jimmy Xu

doi:10.1117/12.825864

2 September 2009 Plasmonic nanorectennas for energy conversion

Richard Osgood III, Joel B. Carlson, Brian R. Kimball, David P. Ziegler, James R. Welch, Lauren E. Belton, Gustavo E. Fernandes, Zhijun Liu, Jimmy Xu

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Proceedings Volume 7394, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties VII; 73941L (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.825864
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2009, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

There is renewed interest in using rectennas (consisting of an antenna coupled to a rectifying diode) for energy conversion applications. Progress in nanofabrication has enabled nanoscale devices to be fabricated, such that "nanoantennas" exist that resonate at visible/near-infrared (vis/nir) wavelengths, and ultrafast "nanodiodes" exist that can rectify vis/nir frequencies (above 10¹⁴ Hz). Photon energies are so high at these frequencies that existing theories of diode responsivity may not apply, justifying new simulations and experiments. We present modeling and experiments of nanoantenna-coupled nanodiodes, such as metal-insulator-metal structures, and discuss how our findings influence models of energy conversion in these structures. We simulate and measure the properties of potential nanorectennas such as gold nanowires on ultrathin insulators.

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Richard Osgood III, Joel B. Carlson, Brian R. Kimball, David P. Ziegler, James R. Welch, Lauren E. Belton, Gustavo E. Fernandes, Zhijun Liu, and Jimmy Xu "Plasmonic nanorectennas for energy conversion", Proc. SPIE 7394, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties VII, 73941L (2 September 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.825864

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