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Title: Theoretical predictions for hot-carrier generation from surface plasmon decay

Abstract

Decay of surface plasmons to hot carriers finds a wide variety of applications in energy conversion, photocatalysis and photodetection. However, a detailed theoretical description of plasmonic hot-carrier generation in real materials has remained incomplete. Here we report predictions for the prompt distributions of excited 'hot' electrons and holes generated by plasmon decay, before inelastic relaxation, using a quantized plasmon model with detailed electronic structure. We find that carrier energy distributions are sensitive to the electronic band structure of the metal: gold and copper produce holes hotter than electrons by 1-2 eV, while silver and aluminium distribute energies more equitably between electrons and holes. Momentum-direction distributions for hot carriers are anisotropic, dominated by the plasmon polarization for aluminium and by the crystal orientation for noble metals. We show that in thin metallic films intraband transitions can alter the carrier distributions, producing hotter electrons in gold, but interband transitions remain dominant.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [2]
  1. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)
  2. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) and Thomas J. Watson Laboratories of Applied Physics
  3. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) and Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
  4. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) and Materials and Process Simulation Center
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California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1457531
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0004993
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Sundararaman, Ravishankar, Narang, Prineha, Jermyn, Adam S., Goddard III, William A., and Atwater, Harry A. Theoretical predictions for hot-carrier generation from surface plasmon decay. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms6788.
Sundararaman, Ravishankar, Narang, Prineha, Jermyn, Adam S., Goddard III, William A., & Atwater, Harry A. Theoretical predictions for hot-carrier generation from surface plasmon decay. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6788
Sundararaman, Ravishankar, Narang, Prineha, Jermyn, Adam S., Goddard III, William A., and Atwater, Harry A. Tue . "Theoretical predictions for hot-carrier generation from surface plasmon decay". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6788. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1457531.
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abstractNote = {Decay of surface plasmons to hot carriers finds a wide variety of applications in energy conversion, photocatalysis and photodetection. However, a detailed theoretical description of plasmonic hot-carrier generation in real materials has remained incomplete. Here we report predictions for the prompt distributions of excited 'hot' electrons and holes generated by plasmon decay, before inelastic relaxation, using a quantized plasmon model with detailed electronic structure. We find that carrier energy distributions are sensitive to the electronic band structure of the metal: gold and copper produce holes hotter than electrons by 1-2 eV, while silver and aluminium distribute energies more equitably between electrons and holes. Momentum-direction distributions for hot carriers are anisotropic, dominated by the plasmon polarization for aluminium and by the crystal orientation for noble metals. We show that in thin metallic films intraband transitions can alter the carrier distributions, producing hotter electrons in gold, but interband transitions remain dominant.},
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journal = {Nature Communications},
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year = {Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2014},
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Strong light-matter coupling in quantum chemistry and quantum photonics
journal, September 2018


Fundamental limits of hot carrier injection from metal in nanoplasmonics
journal, February 2020


Large-Area Metasurface Perfect Absorbers from Visible to Near-Infrared
journal, November 2015

  • Akselrod, Gleb M.; Huang, Jiani; Hoang, Thang B.
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Efficient Hot‐Electron Transfer under Modal Strong Coupling Conditions with Sacrificial Electron Donors
journal, May 2019


Enhancement of Selective Fixation of Dinitrogen to Ammonia under Modal Strong Coupling Conditions
journal, April 2020

  • Oshikiri, Tomoya; Shi, Xu; Misawa, Hiroaki
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 2020, Issue 15-16
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Laser-induced incandescence on metal nanoparticles: validity of the Rayleigh approximation
journal, October 2019


Catalytic conversion of solar to chemical energy on plasmonic metal nanostructures
journal, September 2018


Plasmonic Hot Hole Generation by Interband Transition in Gold-Polyaniline
journal, December 2015

  • Barman, Tapan; Hussain, Amreen A.; Sharma, Bikash
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, Issue 1
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Tuning the photo-response in monolayer MoS2 by plasmonic nano-antenna
journal, March 2016

  • Li, Jiu; Ji, Qingqing; Chu, Saisai
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1
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Ultrafast and nonlinear surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
journal, January 2016

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Hot electron-driven photocatalytic water splitting
journal, January 2017

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Analytical analysis of spectral sensitivity of plasmon resonances in a nanocavity
journal, January 2019

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  • Nanoscale, Vol. 11, Issue 22
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Energetic hot electrons from exciton-to-hot electron upconversion in Mn-doped semiconductor nanocrystals
journal, September 2019

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Cu 2 O–Au nanowire field-effect phototransistor for hot carrier transfer enhanced photodetection
journal, April 2019


Coulomb effects on the photoexcited quantum dynamics of electrons in a plasmonic nanosphere
journal, October 2018


Plasmonic Au/TiO2-dumbbell-on-film nanocavities for high-efficiency hot-carrier generation and extraction
conference, January 2018

  • Ho, Kwun Hei Willis; Shang, AiXue; Lo, Tsz Wing
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Plasmonic hot carrier dynamics in solid-state and chemical systems for energy conversion
journal, January 2016

  • Narang, Prineha; Sundararaman, Ravishankar; Atwater, Harry A.
  • Nanophotonics, Vol. 5, Issue 1
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Solar-Powered Plasmon-Enhanced Heterogeneous Catalysis
journal, January 2016


Prospects and applications of plasmon-exciton interactions in the near-field regime
journal, November 2018


Plasmon-Induced Hot-Carrier Generation differences in Gold and Silver Nanoclusters
preprint, March 2019


Plasmon Modulation Spectroscopy of Noble Metals to Reveal the Distribution of the Fermi Surface Electrons in the Conduction Band
journal, December 2017

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  • Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 12
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Interface-Engineered Plasmonics in Metal/Semiconductor Heterostructures
journal, June 2016


From plasmon-enhanced molecular spectroscopy to plasmon-mediated chemical reactions
journal, August 2018


Effects of particle size and annealing on plasmon-induced charge separation at self-assembled gold nanoparticle arrays
journal, January 2018

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Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity of Co/CoO hybrid structures: a first-principles study on the Co layer thickness effect
journal, January 2019

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Multi-spectral frequency selective mid-infrared microbolometers
journal, January 2018

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Plasmonic tunnel junctions for single-molecule redox chemistry
text, January 2017

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  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Porous Ag/TiO2-Schottky-diode based plasmonic hot-electron photodetector with high detectivity and fast response
journal, July 2019


Ab initio phonon coupling and optical response of hot electrons in plasmonic metals
text, January 2016


Experimental and ab initio ultrafast carrier dynamics in plasmonic nanoparticles
text, January 2016


Theory of electron-plasmon coupling in semiconductors
text, January 2016


Landau damping of surface plasmons in metal nanostructures
text, January 2016


Coulomb effects on the photo-excited quantum dynamics of electrons in a plasmonic nanosphere
text, January 2017


Hot carrier dynamics in plasmonic transition metal nitrides
text, January 2018


Single plasmon hot carrier generation in metallic nanoparticles
preprint, January 2019


Hot carrier dynamics in a dispersionless plasmonic system
text, January 2019


Hot Hole Enhanced Synergistic Catalytic Oxidation on Pt-Cu Alloy Clusters
journal, February 2017


Phonon-Assisted Hot Carrier Generation in Plasmonic Semiconductor Systems
journal, January 2021


Gold Nanoparticles as Absolute Nanothermometers
journal, January 2018


Photodetection by Hot Electrons or Hot Holes: A Comparable Study on Physics and Performances
journal, March 2019


Hot Carrier Generation and Extraction of Plasmonic Alloy Nanoparticles
journal, March 2017


Classical and ab Initio Plasmonics Meet at Sub-nanometric Noble Metal Rods
journal, May 2017


Energy transfer in plasmonic photocatalytic composites
journal, February 2016

  • Ma, Xiang-Chao; Dai, Ying; Yu, Lin
  • Light: Science & Applications, Vol. 5, Issue 2
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Interplay between plasmon and single-particle excitations in a metal nanocluster
journal, December 2015

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  • Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1
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Efficient plasmonic emission by the quantum Čerenkov effect from hot carriers in graphene
journal, June 2016

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  • Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
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Distinguishing between plasmon-induced and photoexcited carriers in a device geometry
journal, July 2015

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  • Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1
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Direct observation of ultrafast plasmonic hot electron transfer in the strong coupling regime
journal, January 2019


“Hot” electrons in metallic nanostructures—non-thermal carriers or heating?
journal, October 2019


Interplay of hot electrons from localized and propagating plasmons
journal, October 2017


Surface plasmon induced direct detection of long wavelength photons
journal, November 2017


Quantifying the role of surface plasmon excitation and hot carrier transport in plasmonic devices
journal, August 2018

  • Tagliabue, Giulia; Jermyn, Adam S.; Sundararaman, Ravishankar
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1
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Dirac plasmon-assisted asymmetric hot carrier generation for room-temperature infrared detection
journal, August 2019

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Plasmonic Schottky photodetector with metal stripe embedded into semiconductor and with a CMOS-compatible titanium nitride
journal, April 2019


Plasmonic Hot Hole Generation by Interband Transition in Gold-Polyaniline
journal, December 2015

  • Barman, Tapan; Hussain, Amreen A.; Sharma, Bikash
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, Issue 1
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Fundamental limits of hot carrier injection from metal in nanoplasmonics
journal, February 2020


Plasmonic tunnel junctions for single-molecule redox chemistry
text, January 2017

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  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Plasmon Modulation Spectroscopy of Noble Metals to Reveal the Distribution of the Fermi Surface Electrons in the Conduction Band
journal, December 2017

  • Takagi, Kentaro; Nair, Selvakumar; Saito, Jumpei
  • Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 12
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Enhancing Hot Carrier Collection for Solar Water Splitting with Plasmonic Titanium Nitride
preprint, January 2016


Material, size and environment dependence of plasmon-induced hot carriers in metallic nanoparticles
preprint, January 2018


Single plasmon hot carrier generation in metallic nanoparticles
preprint, January 2019