Plasmonic hot carrier dynamics in solid-state and chemical systems for energy conversion
By Prineha Narang, Ravishankar Sundararaman, Harry A. Atwater. 2016
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Abstract Surface plasmons provide a pathway to efficiently absorb and confine light in metallic nanostructures, thereby bridging photonics to the nano scale. The decay of surface plasmons generates energetic ‘hot’ carriers, which can drive chemical reactions or be injected into semiconductors for nano-scale photochemical or photovoltaic energy conversion. Novel plasmonic hot carrier devices and architectures continue to be demonstrated, but the complexity of the underlying processes make a complete microscopic understanding of all the mechanisms and design considerations for such devices extremely challenging.Here,we review the theoretical and computational efforts to understand and model plasmonic hot carrier devices.We split the problem into three steps: hot carrier generation, transport and collection, and review theoretical approaches with the appropriate level of detail for each step along with their predictions.We identify the key advances necessary to complete the microscopic mechanistic picture and facilitate the design of the next generation of devices and materials for plasmonic energy conversion.
Subfields: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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In Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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- Prineha Narang
- Richard V. Craster
- Jamie M. Fitzgerald
- S. A. Maier
- Pierre Berini
- Phaedon Avouris
- Andreas Trügler
In Materials Chemistry
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Citations in the corpus
- Quantum Plasmonics (2016, background): “While we do not focus on electronic structure methods for plasmon decays here, a recent review [109] emphasizes the current theoretical understanding of the microscopic mechanisms underlying, and thereby the fundamental limits of plasmon decay dynamics.”