Anomalous ultrafast dynamics of hot plasmonic electrons in nanostructures with hot spots

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 770-774

  Harutyunyan, Hayk ^a,b   Martinson, Alex B F ^a   Rosenmann, Daniel ^a   Khorashad, Larousse Khosravi ^c   Besteiro, Lucas V ^c   Govorov, Alexander O ^c   Wiederrecht, Gary P ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHONONS; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS;

COLLECTIVE OSCILLATIONS; ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRON PHONON SCATTERING; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; HOT ELECTRON GENERATION; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; INTRABAND TRANSITIONS; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES;

HOT ELECTRONS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DYNAMICS; ELECTRON; HEAT; OSCILLATION; PHONON; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE CHARGE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84941181440     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.165     Document Type: Article

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