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Multiplexed infrared photodetection using resonant radio-frequency circuits

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4941431· OSTI ID:22489429
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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (United States)
  2. Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854 (United States)
  3. Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida 32542 (United States)
  4. Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433 (United States)

We demonstrate a room-temperature semiconductor-based photodetector where readout is achieved using a resonant radio-frequency (RF) circuit consisting of a microstrip split-ring resonator coupled to a microstrip busline, fabricated on a semiconductor substrate. The RF resonant circuits are characterized at RF frequencies as function of resonator geometry, as well as for their response to incident IR radiation. The detectors are modeled analytically and using commercial simulation software, with good agreement to our experimental results. Though the detector sensitivity is weak, the detector architecture offers the potential for multiplexing arrays of detectors on a single read-out line, in addition to high speed response for either direct coupling of optical signals to RF circuitry, or alternatively, carrier dynamics characterization of semiconductor, or other, material systems.

OSTI ID:
22489429
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 108; ISSN APPLAB; ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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