Imperial College London
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ProfessorStefanMaier

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Lee-Lucas Chair in Experimental Physics
 
 
 
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Huxley 903Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Cortes and Xie:2017:10.1038/ncomms14880,
author = {Cortes and Xie, W and Cambiasso and Jermyn, AS and Sunduraraman, R and Narang, P and Schlücker, S and Maier, SA},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms14880},
journal = {Nature Communications},
title = {Plasmonic hot electron transport drives nano-localized chemistry},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14880},
volume = {8},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Nanoscale localization of electromagnetic fields near metallic nanostructures underpins the fundamentals and applications of plasmonics. The unavoidable energy loss from plasmon decay, initially seen as a detriment, has now expanded the scope of plasmonic applications to exploit the generated hot carriers. However, quantitative understanding of the spatial localization of these hot carriers, akin to electromagnetic near-field maps, has been elusive. Here we spatially map hot-electron-driven reduction chemistry with 15 nanometre resolution as a function of time and electromagnetic field polarization for different plasmonic nanostructures. We combine experiments employing a six-electron photo-recycling process that modify the terminal group of a self-assembled monolayer on plasmonic silver nanoantennas, with theoretical predictions from first-principles calculations of non-equilibrium hot-carrier transport in these systems. The resulting localization of reactive regions, determined by hot carrier transport from high-field regions, paves the way for improving efficiency in hot-carrier extraction science and nanoscale regio-selective surface chemistry.
AU  - Cortes
AU  - Xie,W
AU  - Cambiasso
AU  - Jermyn,AS
AU  - Sunduraraman,R
AU  - Narang,P
AU  - Schlücker,S
AU  - Maier,SA
DO  - 10.1038/ncomms14880
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 2041-1723
TI  - Plasmonic hot electron transport drives nano-localized chemistry
T2  - Nature Communications
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14880
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/44418
VL  - 8
ER  -
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