Surface reactions with hot electrons and hot holes in metals

D Diesing, H Janssen, A Otto - Surface science, 1995 - Elsevier
… This is related to surface photochemistry, believed to be induced by intermediate hot
electrons. In the present work hot electrons and hot holes are injected into a thin silver film …

Reactivating catalytic surface: Insights into the role of hot holes in plasmonic catalysis

T Peng, J Miao, Z Gao, L Zhang, Y Gao, C Fan, D Li - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… We found an alternated appearance of AuO bond during repeating dark and laser illuminating
reactions, which further confirmed the conclusion of hot hole-induced breaking of AuO …

Direct detection of electron–hole pairs generated by chemical reactions on metal surfaces

H Nienhaus, HS Bergh, B Gergen, A Majumdar… - Surface science, 2000 - Elsevier
… The hot electrons travel ballistically through the film into the … the detection of hot electron
and hot hole creation during … advantages of this new method of studying surface reactions. …

Electronic excitations by chemical reactions on metal surfaces

H Nienhaus - Surface Science Reports, 2002 - Elsevier
… excited or hot electron with energy above the Fermi level E F and to an excited or hot hole
with … Recently, a novel approach to detect chemically created hot electrons and hot holes has …

Hot-electron-mediated surface chemistry: toward electronic control of catalytic activity

JY Park, SM Kim, H Lee… - Accounts of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
… electrons generated by the energy dissipation processes in surface chemical reactions and
… In addition, the Schottky barrier can serve as an efficient separator of hot electrons and holes

[HTML][HTML] Plasmon-induced hot-hole generation and extraction at nano-heterointerfaces for photocatalysis

M Ahlawat, D Mittal, V Govind Rao - Communications Materials, 2021 - nature.com
… /mechanisms adopted to extract hot holes from the plasmonic … , highlighting hot holes driven
chemical reactions and their … surface that could effectively trap plasmon-induced hot holes

Increasing reactivity of plasmonic hot holes by a trapping strategy

C Li, Z Ma, B Han - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2022 - Elsevier
… electrons and holes by conducting electrons at the surface of … The fundamental mismatch
between the lifetime of hot holes (… of hot holes and redox potentials of chemical reactions are …

Using hot electrons and hot holes for simultaneous cocatalyst deposition on plasmonic nanostructures

E Kontoleta, A Tsoukala, SHC Askes… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… are excited at their local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) to generate hot electrons and
… for the photogeneration of hot electrons and hot holes and to drive redox reactions for the …

Spectral screening of the energy of hot holes over a particle plasmon resonance

E Pensa, J Gargiulo, A Lauri, S Schlücker… - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
… number of examples showing hot-carrier-assisted reactions, little is … The effective energy of
the reactive hot holes is in the range … of the reactive hot holes at the surface of a 80 nm AuNP. …

Hot hole-induced dissociation of NO dimers on a copper surface

N García Rey, H Arnolds - The Journal of chemical physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
… We, therefore, propose that photoinduced dissociation of NO dimers on Cu (110) in the
visible wavelength region proceeds by the creation of hot holes at the top of the copper d-band. …