Excitation of surface plasmons on metallic nanoparticles has potential for increasing the absorption and emission from thin Si devices. We report an eight-fold enhancement in electroluminescence from silicon-on-insulator light-emitting diodes at via excitation of surface plasmon resonance in silver nanoparticles, along with a redshift in the electroluminescence by by overcoating the nanoparticles with . The enhancement is due to coupling between the electromagnetic excitations of the silver nanoparticles and the waveguide modes.
© 2006 American Institute of Physics.
2006
American Institute of Physics
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