Photon upconversion with hot carriers in plasmonic systems

Naik, Gururaj V.; Dionne, Jennifer A.

doi:10.1063/1.4932127

Title: Photon upconversion with hot carriers in plasmonic systems

Journal Article · Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4932127· OSTI ID:1370711

Naik, Gururaj V. ^[1]; Dionne, Jennifer A. ^[1]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Materials Science and Engineering

In this paper, we propose a scheme of photon upconversion based on harnessing the energy of plasmonic hot carriers. Low-energy photons excite hot electrons and hot holes in a plasmonic nanoparticle, which are then injected into an adjacent semiconductor quantum well where they radiatively recombine to emit a photon of higher energy. We theoretically study the proposed upconversion scheme using Fermi-liquid theory and determine the internal quantum efficiency of upconversion to be as high as 25% in 5 nm silver nanocubes. This upconversion scheme is linear in its operation, does not require coherent illumination, offers spectral tunability, and is more efficient than conventional upconverters.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC), Washington D.C. (United States). Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001293

OSTI ID:: 1370711

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1229686

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 13; Related Information: LMI partners with California Institute of Technology (lead); Harvard University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; ISSN 0003-6951

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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