Ultrafast photoinduced charge separation in metal-semiconductor nanohybrids

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7034-7043

  Mongin, Denis ^a   Shaviv, Ehud ^b   Maioli, Paolo ^a   Crut, Aurélien ^a   Banin, Uri ^b   Del Fatti, Natalia ^a   Vallée, Fabrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

CdS Au nanocrystals; charge transfer; energy transfer; hybrid nanoparticles; metal semiconductor; time resolved spectroscopy; ultrafast processes

Indexed keywords

CDS NANOROD; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; FREE CLUSTERS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HYBRID NANOPARTICLE; KEY PARAMETERS; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LIGHT-INDUCED CHANGES; LIQUID ENVIRONMENT; METAL COMPONENTS; METAL PARTS; METAL SURFACES; METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR; MODEL SYSTEM; NANO-OBJECTS; NANOHYBRIDS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE SEPARATION; PUMP-PROBE TECHNIQUE; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RED SHIFT; SEMICONDUCTOR METALS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TIME-RESOLVED; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; TIME-SCALES; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST PROCESS;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CHARGE TRANSFER; ENERGY TRANSFER; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; HYBRID MATERIALS; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; METALS; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSYSTEMS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOEXCITATION; SEPARATION;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; NANOMATERIAL; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATIC ELECTRICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTORS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84865574773     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302089h     Document Type: Article

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