Enhanced generation and anisotropic Coulomb scattering of hot electrons in an ultra-broadband plasmonic nanopatch metasurface

Sykes, Matthew E.; Stewart, Jon W.; Akselrod, Gleb M.; Kong, Xiang -Tian; Wang, Zhiming; Gosztola, David J.; Martinson, Alex B. F.; Rosenmann, Daniel; Mikkelsen, Maiken H.; Govorov, Alexander O.; Wiederrecht, Gary P.

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01069-3

Enhanced generation and anisotropic Coulomb scattering of hot electrons in an ultra-broadband plasmonic nanopatch metasurface

Journal Article · Tue Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01069-3· OSTI ID:1402469

Sykes, Matthew E. ^[1]; ^[2]; Akselrod, Gleb M. ^[2]; ^[3]; Wang, Zhiming ^[4]; Gosztola, David J. ^[1]; ^[1]; Rosenmann, Daniel ^[1]; ^[2]; ^[5]; Wiederrecht, Gary P. ^[1]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu (China); Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu (China)
Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)

The creation of energetic electrons through plasmon excitation of nanostructures before thermalization has been proposed for a wide number of applications in optical energy conversion and ultrafast nanophotonics. However, the use of "nonthermal" electrons is primarily limited by both a low generation efficiency and their ultrafast decay. We report experimental and theoretical results on the use of broadband plasmonic nanopatch metasurfaces comprising a gold substrate coupled to silver nanocubes that produce large concentrations of hot electrons, which we measure using transient absorption spectroscopy. We find evidence for three subpopulations of nonthermal carriers which we propose arise from anisotropic electron-electron scattering within sp-bands near the Fermi surface. The bimetallic character of the metasurface strongly impacts the physics, with dissipation occurring primarily in the gold whereas the quantum process of hot electron generation takes place in both components. As a result, our calculations show that the choice of geometry and materials is crucial for producing strong ultrafast nonthermal electron components.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center (ANSER)

Sponsoring Organization:: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); Army Research Office; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22), Scientific User Facilities Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1402469

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 8; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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