Design and fabrication of an electrical injection metallic bowtie plasmonic structure integrated with semiconductor gain medium

Kang Ding, Hua Wang, Martin T. Hill, Cun-Zheng Ning

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Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a design and fabrication of an electrical injection metallic bowtie (MB) structure integrated with semiconductor gain medium. Our integrated bowtie-semiconductor structure takes the advantage of selective wet chemical etching of InGaAsP, allowing the formation of a bowtie shaped gain structure by a single step etching. The subsequent metal deposition allows the nature integration of gain medium between two bowtie tips. Electroluminescence was observed from fabricated structures at 78 K. Such gain embedded MB structures open the potential for large scale fabrication of plasmonic structures for various applications such as nanolasers and plasmonic generation under electrical injection.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number091112
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume103
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 26 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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