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Sub-wavelength antenna enhanced bilayer graphene tunable photodetector

US9293627B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Sandia Corporation · US

Inventors

Thomas Edwin Beechem, III · Albuquerque, US
Stephen W. Howell · Bloomington, US
David W. Peters · Albuquerque, US
Paul Davids · Albuquerque, US
Taisuke Ohta · Albuquerque, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 17, 2013
Grant date	Mar 22, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 31, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02E10/549

Abstract

The integration of bilayer graphene with an absorption enhancing sub-wavelength antenna provides an infrared photodetector capable of real-time spectral tuning without filters at nanosecond timescales.

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