Bound States in the Continuum for Hot Electron Generation in Integrated-Resonant Metasurfaces

R Lin, J Yao, ZH Wang, MK Chen… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen, as a type of sustainable energy, has the potential to facilitate the achievement of
carbon neutrality by replacing fossil fuels. Conventional plasmonic metal nanostructures as …

Broadband and spectrally selective photothermal conversion through nanocluster assembly of disordered plasmonic metasurfaces

J Chen, Y Qin, Y Niu, P Mao, F Song, RE Palmer… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic metasurfaces have been realized for efficient light absorption, thereby leading to
photothermal conversion through nonradiative decay of plasmonic modes. However, current …

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

E Kontoleta, A Tsoukala, SHC Askes… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Hot electrons generated in metal nanoparticles can drive chemical reactions and selectively
deposit cocatalyst materials on the plasmonic hotspots, the areas where the decay of …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Unveiling long-lived hot-electron dynamics via hyperbolic meta-antennas

R Dhama, M Habib, AR Rashed, H Caglayan - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conventional plasmonic nanoantennas enable scattering and absorption bands at the same
wavelength region, making their utilization to full potential impossible for both features …

Tunable Broadband Photoresponse Electron‐Emission Nanostructure: Metasurface‐Extended Spectrum‐Selecting and Plasmon‐Enhanced Emitting

Y Shen, Y Han, H Chen, N Xu… - Advanced Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Exploring novel nanotechnology schemes for tunable broadband vacuum photodetection
devices is of great significance. Herein, a strategy to combine a field‐emission cold cathode …

Photoenhanced Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Accelerated Dominantly by the Hot Electrons from Intraband Transition rather than Interband Transition

C Chi, YA Pan, M Ni, XL Ding, J Li… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic materials enabling sunlight as an energy input to catalyze the hydrogen evolution
reaction (HER) have become the research focus of artificial photosynthesis. Upon visible …

Unraveling the temperature dynamics and hot electron generation in tunable gap-plasmon metasurface absorbers

L Khosravi Khorashad, C Argyropoulos - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Localized plasmons formed in ultrathin metallic nanogaps can lead to robust absorption of
incident light. Plasmonic metasurfaces based on this effect can efficiently generate energetic …

Plasmon-generated hot holes for chemical reactions

C Zhang, F Jia, Z Li, X Huang, G Lu - Nano Research, 2020 - Springer
Plasmonic nanostructures have been widely used for photochemical conversions due to
their unique and easy-tuning optical properties in visible and near-infrared range …

Hot-electron-induced CO2 hydrogenation on Au@ AuRu/g-C3N4 plasmonic bimetal–semiconductor heterostructure

X Zhang, H Liu, Y Wang, S Yang, Q Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hot-electron-induced CO 2 hydrogenation is a promising pathway for solar-to-chemical
energy conversion under mild conditions. Herein, we designed a unique “antenna–reactor” …