Ascertaining Plasmonic Hot Electrons Generation from Plasmon Decay in Hybrid Plasmonic Modes

Plasmonics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 909-915

  Wang, Shuxia ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Liu, Ting ^a   Huang, Yingzhou ^a   Chen, Guo ^a   Wei, Hua ^a   Su, Xun ^a   Zeng, Xiping ^c   Xia, Zengzilu ^c   Wen, Weijia ^c   Sun, Mengtao ^b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hot electrons; Plasmon driven surface catalysis; SERS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945589365     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-015-0125-x     Document Type: Article

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