Vertical photon sorting by stacking silicon and germanium nanopillars for broadband absorbers.

ABSTRACT: Perfect absorbers based on all-dielectric metasurfaces exhibit great potential in photodetection, photovoltaics, and imaging applications. This study proposes and demonstrates an all-dielectric broadband absorber comprising subwavelength-thick nanopillar Mie resonators in the visible light range. This nanopillar functions as a perfect absorber based on degenerate critical coupling with a characteristic "degenerate critical length." At this length, the nanopillars are capable of achieving perfect absorption. Beyond this length, the peak of perfect absorption is not affected with further increases in the length of the nanopillars. Hence, this study realizes broadband absorption via the stacking of amorphous silicon and germanium nanopillars with the same width at different peak absorption wa

SUBMITTER: Xu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11501955 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature