Plasmonic hot electron transport drives nano-localized chemistry

Emiliano Cortés; Wei Xie; Javier Cambiasso; Adam S. Jermyn; Ravishankar Sundararaman; Prineha Narang; Sebastian Schlücker; Stefan A. Maier

doi:10.1038/ncomms14880

Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Plasmonic hot electron transport drives nano-localized chemistry

Emiliano Cortés,
Wei Xie,
Javier Cambiasso,
Adam S. Jermyn,
Ravishankar Sundararaman,
Prineha Narang,
Sebastian Schlücker,
Stefan A. Maier

Affiliations

Emiliano Cortés: Department of Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London
Wei Xie: Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), Physical Chemistry I, University of Duisburg-Essen
Javier Cambiasso: Department of Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London
Adam S. Jermyn: Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University
Ravishankar Sundararaman: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Prineha Narang: Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Sebastian Schlücker: Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), Physical Chemistry I, University of Duisburg-Essen
Stefan A. Maier: Department of Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14880
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Quantitative understanding of the spatial localization of hot carriers has been elusive. Here Corteset al. spatially map hot-electron-driven reduction chemistry with 15 nm resolution as a function of time and electromagnetic field polarization for different plasmonic nanostructures.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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