Hot Electron Photoemission from Plasmonic Nanostructures: The Role of Surface Photoemission and Transition Absorption

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1039-1048

  Babicheva, Viktoriia E ^a,b   Zhukovsky, Sergei V ^a,c   Ikhsanov, Renat Sh ^d   Protsenko, Igor E ^e,f   Smetanin, Igor V ^e   Uskov, Alexander ^a,e,f  

^a ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d Scientific Research Institute for Graphite Based Construction Materials NIIgrafit   (Russian Federation)

^e LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f ADVANCED ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

hot electron photoemission; plasmonic nanostructures; surface photoelectric effect; transition absorption; volume photoelectric effect

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; HOT ELECTRONS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PLASMONS; TITANIUM OXIDES;

ELECTRON PHOTOEMISSION; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE; SURFACE PHOTOEMISSION; TRANSITION ABSORPTION;

PHOTOEMISSION;

EID: 84939793398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00059     Document Type: Article

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