Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Efficient plasmon-hot electron conversion in Ag–CsPbBr3 hybrid nanocrystals

  • Xinyu Huang,
  • Hongbo Li,
  • Chunfeng Zhang,
  • Shijing Tan,
  • Zhangzhang Chen,
  • Lan Chen,
  • Zhenda Lu,
  • Xiaoyong Wang,
  • Min Xiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09112-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Proposed devices exploiting the strong exciton-plasmon coupling are limited by the low efficiency of hot carrier generation. Here, Huang et al. study the efficiencies of different plasmon-hot electron conversion processes in metal/perovskite semiconductor nanocrystals to address this problem.