Giant photogalvanic effect in noncentrosymmetric plasmonic nanoparticles

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Zhukovsky, Sergei V ^a,b   Babicheva, Viktoriia E ^a,b,c   Evlyukhin, Andrey B ^d   Protsenko, Igor E ^e,f   Lavrinenko, Andrei V ^a   Uskov, Alexander V ^a,e,f  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

^d LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^e LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f ADVANCED ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PLASMONS;

METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NON-CENTROSYMMETRIC CRYSTALS; PHOTO-ELECTRON EMISSION; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTRIC PROPERTY; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATRICES;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84907049381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031038     Document Type: Article

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