Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Probing nanoscale spatial distribution of plasmonically excited hot carriers

  • Sheng-Chao Huang,
  • Xiang Wang,
  • Qing-Qing Zhao,
  • Jin-Feng Zhu,
  • Cha-Wei Li,
  • Yu-Han He,
  • Shu Hu,
  • Matthew M. Sartin,
  • Sen Yan,
  • Bin Ren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18016-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Revealing the spatial distribution of hot carriers in real space is crucial to their efficient utilization. Here, the authors show that in-situ electrochemical tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is able to resolve the spatial distribution of reactive hot carriers with a nanometer spatial resolution.