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Title: Prospects and applications of plasmon-exciton interactions in the near-field regime

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Plasmonics is a rapidly developing field at the boundary of fundamental sciences and device engineering, which exploits the ability of metal nanostructures to concentrate electromagnetic radiation. The principal challenge lies in achieving an efficient conversion of the plasmon-concentrated field into some form of useful energy. To date, a substantial progress has been made within the scientific community in identifying the major pathways of the plasmon energy conversion. Strategies based on the hot electron injection and the near-field energy transfer have already shown promise in a number of proof-of-principle plasmonic architectures. Nevertheless, there are several fundamental questions that need to be addressed in the future to facilitate the transition of plasmonics to a variety of applications in both light amplification and optical detection. Of particular interest is a plasmon-induced resonance energy transfer (PIRET) process that couples the plasmon evanescent field to a semiconductor absorber via dipole-dipole interaction. This relatively unexplored mechanism has emerged as a promising light conversion strategy in the areas of photovoltaics and photocatalysis and represents the main focus of the present minireview. Along these lines, we highlight the key advances in this area and review some of the challenges associated with applications of the PIRET mechanism in nanostructuredmore » systems.« less

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  1. Bowling Green State Univ., OH (United States)
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Bowling Green State Univ., OH (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1612692
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0016872; CBET-1510503; DMR-1710063
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nanophotonics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Nanophotonics (Online); Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher:
de Gruyter
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; science & technology - other topics; materials science; optics; physics; PIRET; plasmon; plasmon-exciton; plasmonics

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Kholmicheva, Natalia, Royo Romero, Luis, Cassidy, James, and Zamkov, Mikhail. Prospects and applications of plasmon-exciton interactions in the near-field regime. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1515/nanoph-2018-0143.
Kholmicheva, Natalia, Royo Romero, Luis, Cassidy, James, & Zamkov, Mikhail. Prospects and applications of plasmon-exciton interactions in the near-field regime. United States. https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2018-0143
Kholmicheva, Natalia, Royo Romero, Luis, Cassidy, James, and Zamkov, Mikhail. Tue . "Prospects and applications of plasmon-exciton interactions in the near-field regime". United States. https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2018-0143. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1612692.
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abstractNote = {Plasmonics is a rapidly developing field at the boundary of fundamental sciences and device engineering, which exploits the ability of metal nanostructures to concentrate electromagnetic radiation. The principal challenge lies in achieving an efficient conversion of the plasmon-concentrated field into some form of useful energy. To date, a substantial progress has been made within the scientific community in identifying the major pathways of the plasmon energy conversion. Strategies based on the hot electron injection and the near-field energy transfer have already shown promise in a number of proof-of-principle plasmonic architectures. Nevertheless, there are several fundamental questions that need to be addressed in the future to facilitate the transition of plasmonics to a variety of applications in both light amplification and optical detection. Of particular interest is a plasmon-induced resonance energy transfer (PIRET) process that couples the plasmon evanescent field to a semiconductor absorber via dipole-dipole interaction. This relatively unexplored mechanism has emerged as a promising light conversion strategy in the areas of photovoltaics and photocatalysis and represents the main focus of the present minireview. Along these lines, we highlight the key advances in this area and review some of the challenges associated with applications of the PIRET mechanism in nanostructured systems.},
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year = {Tue Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2018},
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Fundamental limit of nanophotonic light-trapping in solar cells
conference, August 2010

  • Yu, Zongfu; Raman, Aaswath; Fan, Shanhui
  • SPIE Solar Energy + Technology, SPIE Proceedings
  • DOI: 10.1117/12.861457

Fundamental Limit of Nanophotonic Light-trapping in Solar Cells
conference, January 2010

  • Yu, Zongfu; Raman, Aaswath; Fan, Shanhui
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2010
  • DOI: 10.1364/cleo.2010.cml3