LIGHT EMITTING DIODES, FAST PHOTO-ELECTRON SOURCE AND PHOTODETECTORS WITH SCALED NANOSTRUCTURES AND NANOSCALE METALLIC PHOTONIC CAVITY AND ANTENNA, AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME

摘要

A new ultra-thin high-efficiency photo-electric devices utilizing a plasmonic cavity with subwavelength hole-array (PlaCSH) and various practical devices utilizing such PlaCSH including new light emitting diode (LED), a new photoelectron source, and a new photodetector/solar cell having a photonic resonant cavity with a top metallic layer that is light transmissive, a bottom metallic layer and a middle layer of semiconductor positioned between the top metallic layer and the bottom metallic layer.