Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Interplay of hot electrons from localized and propagating plasmons

  • Chung V. Hoang,
  • Koki Hayashi,
  • Yasuo Ito,
  • Naoki Gorai,
  • Giles Allison,
  • Xu Shi,
  • Quan Sun,
  • Zhenzhou Cheng,
  • Kosei Ueno,
  • Keisuke Goda,
  • Hiroaki Misawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00815-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Plasmon-induced hot electrons have potential applications spanning photodetection and photocatalysis. Here, Hoang et al. study the interplay between hot electrons generated by localized and propagating plasmons, and demonstrate wavelength-controlled polarity-switchable photoconductivity