Hot Electron Driven Photocatalysis on Plasmon-Resonant Grating Nanostructures

Wang, Yu; Aravind, Indu; Cai, Zhi; Shen, Lang; Gibson, George N.; Chen, Jihan; Wang, Bo; Shi, Haotian; Song, Boxiang; Guignon, Ernest; Cady, Nathaniel C.; Page, William D.; Pilar, Arturo; Cronin, Stephen B.

doi:10.1021/acsami.0c00066

Title: Hot Electron Driven Photocatalysis on Plasmon-Resonant Grating Nanostructures

Journal Article · Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c00066· OSTI ID:1803684

^[1]; Aravind, Indu ^[1]; Cai, Zhi ^[1]; Shen, Lang ^[1]; Gibson, George N. ^[2];

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Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States); Ciencia Inc., East Hartford, CT (United States)
Ciencia Inc., East Hartford, CT (United States)
SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY (United States)

Here, we demonstrate the hot electron injection of photoexcited carriers in an Ag-based plasmon resonant grating structure. By varying the incident angle of irradiation, sharp dips are observed in the reflectance with p-polarized light (electric field perpendicular to grating lines) when there is wavevector matching between the incident light and the plasmon resonant modes of the grating and no angle dependence is observed with s-polarized light. This configuration enables us to compare photoelectrochemical current produced by plasmon resonant excitation with that of bulk metal interband absorption simply by rotating the polarization of the incident light while keeping all other parameters of the measurement fixed. With 633 nm light, we observed a 12-fold enhancement in the photocurrent (i.e., reaction rate) between resonant and nonresonant polarizations at incident angles of ±7.6° from normal. At 785 nm irradiation, we observed similar resonant profiles to those obtained with 633 nm wavelength light but with a 44-fold enhancement factor. Using 532 nm light, we observed two resonant peaks (with approximately 10× enhancement) in the photocurrent at 19.4° and 28.0° incident angles, each corresponding to higher order modes in the grating with more nodes per period. The lower enhancement factors observed at shorter wavelengths are attributed to interband transitions, which provide a damping mechanism for the plasmon resonance. Finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations of these grating structures confirm the resonant profiles observed in the angle-dependent spectra of these gratings and provide a detailed picture of the electric field profiles on and off resonance.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); US Army Research Office (ARO); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0019322; W911NF-17-1-0325; CBET-1512505; FA9550-19-1-0115; 55993-ND5

OSTI ID:: 1803684

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 12, Issue 15; ISSN 1944-8244

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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