Collection of hot electrons generated by the efficient absorption of light in metallic
nanostructures, in contact with semiconductor substrates can provide a basis for the …

Energy dissipation at metal surfaces or interfaces between a metal and a dielectric generally
results from elementary excitations, including phonons and electronic excitation, once …

Hot electron flux, generated by both incident light energy and the heat of the catalytic
reaction, is a major element for energy conversion at the surface. Controlling hot electron …

Hot electron generation in a metal and injection into a semiconductor is a crucial mechanism
to convert sub band gap photons into free electrical charges inside a semiconductor. This …

Numerical and semi-analytical models are presented for photon-enhanced-thermionic-
emission (PETE) devices. The models take diffusion of electrons, inhomogeneous …

In optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and photodetectors, a portion of electron-hole
pairs is generated as so-called hot carriers with an excess kinetic energy that is typically lost …

Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) solar converters are based on emission of
energetic electrons from a semiconductor cathode that is illuminated and heated with solar …

In current solar cells, any photon energy exceeding the semiconductor bandgap is lost
before being collected, limiting the cell performance. Hot carrier solar cells could avoid these …

One major strategy that has been used to inject carriers into wide-band-gap materials
involves exciting hot carriers from a nanostructured metal using low-energy photons. Here …

Thermalization losses limit the photon-to-power conversion of solar cells at the high-energy
side of the solar spectrum, as electrons quickly lose their energy relaxing to the band edge …