Energy conversion and transport in molecular-scale junctions

H Zhang, Y Zhu, P Duan, M Shiri, SC Yelishala… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular-scale junctions (MSJs) have been considered the ideal testbed for probing
physical and chemical processes at the molecular scale. Due to nanometric confinement …

Boosted photothermoelectric effect in silver nanoparticles decorated carbon nanotube films for infrared detection and actuation

Y Zheng, X Li, J Zhou, Y Qin, Y Deng, Y Wang - Carbon, 2024 - Elsevier
Photothermoelectric (PTE) effect provides a platform for utilization both photon and thermal
energy, giving rise to high-performance photodetector and radiation energy harvester …

Significantly Boosted Photothermoelectric Effect via Carrier Injection in Au Decorated SWCNT Films for Infrared Detection

X Li, M Sheng, J Liang, J Zheng… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have established their promising application as infrared
photodetector and the photothermoelectric (PTE) effect is demonstrated to play a critical role …

Molecular scale nanophotonics: hot carriers, strong coupling, and electrically driven plasmonic processes

Y Zhu, MB Raschke, D Natelson, L Cui - Nanophotonics, 2024 - degruyter.com
Plasmonic modes confined to metallic nanostructures at the atomic and molecular scale
push the boundaries of light–matter interactions. Within these extreme plasmonic structures …

Single metal photodetectors using plasmonically-active asymmetric gold nanostructures

M Abbasi, CI Evans, L Chen, D Natelson - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic-based photodetectors are receiving increased attention because simple
structural changes can make the photodetectors spectrally sensitive. In this study …

Remote excitation of hot electrons via propagating surface plasmons

CI Evans, D Natelson - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019 - ACS Publications
Efficient hot electron generation in plasmonic nanostructures is of particular interest.
Distinguishing between hot carrier generation and other competing effects due to direct …

Nanocomposite Based Infrared Photothermoelectric Detectors

J Wang - 2023 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
In the last decade, photothermoelectric (PTE) detectors that combine photothermal and
thermoelectric conversion have been demonstrated for infrared and terahertz tracking. They …

Gold (I) carboxylates and [Au (C (NH2) 2 (= S)) 2][SO3Me] for the deposition of gold and gold-doped SiOX materials by the atmospheric pressure combustion CVD …

A Preuß, R Ehnert, BSM Kretzschmar, J Noll… - Inorganica Chimica …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Complexes [AuO 2 CCH 2 OMe (PR 3)](3a, R= Et; 3b, R= n Bu) were prepared by
the reaction of [AuCl (PR 3)](1a, R= Et; 1b, R= n Bu) with [AgO 2 CCH 2 OMe](2), while [Au …

Molecular beam epitaxy of thin films

Y Krockenberger, A Ikeda, H Yamamoto, H Omi - Physical Review Materials, 2022 - APS
The synthesis of complex transition metal oxides using molecular beam epitaxy is well
established with the exception of gold. Overcoming the oxophobicity of gold is a mandatory …

Photothermoelectric response and hot carrier tunneling in gold nanowires

M Abbasi - 2021 - search.proquest.com
The thermoelectric effect is the conversion of electrical to thermal energy and vice versa. In
the photothermoelectric effect (PTE), photons are used as a heat source to apply a …