Ultrathin films including two-dimensional materials and transparent conductive oxide nano-films are excellent candidates for future optoelectronic devices. However, external quantum efficiencies of the ultrathin film-based devices are typically limited due to their small physical thickness. The practical application of these ultrathin films therefore requires integration with optical nanostructures to enhance light-matter interaction in the thin films. In this work, I will present my efforts to modify the interaction between light and ultrathin films using different approaches, including hot electron injection, integration with Fano-resonant photonic crystals, and use a hybrid mode combining an epsilon-near-zero mode with a Huygensâ dielectric metasurface. The optoelectronic devices demonstrated based on these integrations result in significant increases in absorption, photoresponsivity, and modulation depth.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-03282016-105353 |
| Date | 09 April 2016 |
| Creators | Wang, Wenyi |
| Contributors | Jason G. Valentine, Sharon M. Weiss, Richard F. Haglund Jr., Yaqiong Xu, Kirill Bolotin |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03282016-105353/ |
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