Enhanced electron photoemission by collective lattice resonances in plasmonic nanoparticle-array photodetectors and solar cells

Plasmonics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 283-289

  Zhukovsky, Sergei V ^a   Babicheva, Viktoriia E ^a,d   Uskov, Alexander V ^a,b,c   Protsenko, Igor E ^b,c   Lavrinenko, Andrei V ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c ADVANCED ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (Russian Federation)

^d Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Lattice resonances; Localized surface plasmons; Nanoparticles; Photodetectors; Photoelectron emission; Photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906316808     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9621-z     Document Type: Article

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