The manuscript "Room-Temperature Mid-Wave Infrared Guided Mode Resonance Photodetectors for Focal Plane Arrays" published in IEEE Photonics Society's Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (May-June 2026) issue on Nanophotonics, Metamaterials and Plasmonics.
Led by graduate students Noah Mansfield and Morgan Bergthold, in collaboration with Viktor Podolskiy's group (UMass) and scientists from the Nick Holonyak, Jr. Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (UIUC), it shows room temperature operation of mid-wave infrared detectors with extremely low dark current and remarkably high EQE, in a substrate side illumination configuration. This work opens the door to the integration of these detectors with focal plane array architectures for a range of sensing, imaging, and earth science applications. This work was funded by NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration.