Micro and Nanophotonics for Semiconductor Infrared Detectors (eBook)

Zoran Jakšić was born in 1960 in Pancevo, Serbia. He received his Dipl.-Ing., Mag. Sci. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering – engineering physics from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. His interest are nano photonics and nano plasmonics including electromagnetic metamaterials, subwavelength plasmonic crystals and photonic bandgap structures, NEMS and MEMS sensors and infrared photodetectors. He authored nearly 300 peer-reviewed publications, including 66 international journal papers, an international monograph and 3 book chapters. He is a full research professor and the science director of the Center of Microelectronic Technologies, a department of the Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He is the President Elect of the Optical Society of Serbia and the Programme Chair of the ETRAN Society, the oldest and the most prestigious Serbian professional society. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Optical Society of America.

Part I Introduction- A Path to an Ideal Photonic Detector.- Infrared Detector Performance and Main Figures of Merit.- “Ideal” IR Detectors.- Classification of IR Detectors.- On Specific Detectivity of Photonic Infrared Detectors.- Recombination Mechanisms in Direct Narrow-Bandgap Semiconductors.- Noise in Semiconductor IR Detectors.- Optimizing D*f* product.- Part II Photon Management.- Nonimaging Optical Concentrators.- Refractive Concentrators.- Reflective Nonimaging Concentrators,- Antireflection Structures.- Plasmonic Field Concentrators.- Radiative Lifetime Increase.- Part III Thermal Noise Management.- Nonequilibrium Suppression of Auger Generation-Recombination.- Limits of Nonequilibrium Detector Operation.- General Model of Nonequilibrium Photodetectors with Auger Suppression.- Contact Phenomena and Calvanic Suppression of Auger Processes.- Exclusion photoconductors.- Extraction Photodiodes.- Galvanomagnetic Methods: Magnetoconcentration Photodetector.- Hybrid Methods.- On Application of Nonequilibrium Detectors: LWIR Free-Spec Optics.- Negative Luminescence Shields.