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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
The ability to convert light into an electrical signal with high efficiencies and controllable dynamics, is a major need in photonics and optoelectronics. In the Terahertz (THz) frequency range, with its exceptional application possibilities in high data rate wireless communications, security, night-vision, biomedical or video-imaging and gas sensing, detection technologies providing efficiency and sensitivity performances that can be “engineered” from scratch, remain elusive. Here, by exploiting the inherent electrical and thermal in-plane anisotropy of a flexible thin flake of black-phosphorus (BP), we devise plasma-wave, thermoelectric and bolometric nano-detectors with a selective, switchable and controllable operating mechanism. All devices operates at room-temperature and are integrated on-chip with planar nanoantennas, which provide remarkable efficiencies through light-harvesting in the strongly sub …
Publisher: 
Nature Publishing Group
Publication date: 
5 Feb 2016
Authors: 

Leonardo Viti, Jin Hu, Dominique Coquillat, Antonio Politano, Wojciech Knap, Miriam S Vitiello

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Volume: 6 Pages: 20474
Origin: 
Scientific Reports