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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2014
University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Robert Peale, Winter Park, FL (US);
Masahiro Ishigami, Orlando, FL (US);
Christian W. Smith, Winter Park, FL (US);
University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
A plasmonic phototransistor includes a photon to surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) transducer including and an optical coupling structure configured to receive incident light and an electrically conducting layer having a first and a second surface. The second surface is on the optical coupling structure and the first surface generates SPPs responsive to the incident light. A gate dielectric layer is on the first surface. A two dimensional (2D) electrically conductive material is on the gate dielectric layer having electrical properties sensitive to electromagnetic fields of the SPP. Source and drain contacts are on the 2D electrically conductive material. Dynamic electric fields of the SPPs reach the 2D electrically conductive material that are operable to electric field-induce modulation of an electrical conductance of the 2D electrically conductive material which is sensed from the source and drain contacts.