Plasmon enhanced solar-to-fuel energy conversion

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3440-3446

  Thomann, Isabell ^a   Pinaud, Blaise A ^b   Chen, Zhebo ^b   Clemens, Bruce M ^a   Jaramillo, Thomas F ^b   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

iron oxide; noble metal nanoparticles; Plasmon; solar fuel; water oxidation; water splitting

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER MATERIAL; CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; CLEAN ENERGY; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FULL-FIELD; FUTURE GENERATIONS; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; MULTILAYER INTERFERENCE; NOBLE METAL NANOPARTICLES; PHOTO-ELECTRODES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESS; PHOTOCURRENT SPECTRUM; PHOTOEXCITED CARRIERS; PLASMONIC; PLASMONICS; REACTIVE SURFACES; RELEVANT REACTIONS; SOLAR FUELS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SURFACE PLASMON EXCITATION; WATER OXIDATION; WATER SPLITTING;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; FUELS; IRON OXIDES; PLASMONS; PRECIOUS METALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 80051618988     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl201908s     Document Type: Article

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