title: Electrical excitation of surface plasmons by an individual carbon nanotube transistor.
abstract: We demonstrate here the realization of an integrated, electrically driven, source of surface plasmon polaritons. Light-emitting individual single-walled carbon nanotube field effect transistors were fabricated in a plasmonic-ready platform. The devices were operated at ambient conditions to act as an electroluminescence source localized near the contacting gold electrodes. We show that photon emission from the semiconducting channel can couple to propagating surface plasmons developing in the electrical terminals. Our results show that a common functional element can be operated for two different platforms emphasizing thus the high degree of compatibility between state-of-the-art nano-optoelectronics devices and a plasmonic architecture.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, CNRS-UMR 6303, Université de Bourgogne, 21078 Dijon, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rai
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hartmann
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Berthelot
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arocas
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Colas des Francs
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hartschuh
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bouhelier