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Efficient Hot Electron Transfer from Small Au Nanoparticles
- Source :
- Nano Letters. 20:4322-4329
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- American Chemical Society (ACS), 2020.
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Abstract
- Many important chemical transformations enabled by plasmonic hot carrier photocatalysis have been reported, although their efficiencies are often too low for practical applications. We examine how the efficiency of plasmon-induced hot electron transfer depends on the Au particle size in Au-tipped CdS nanorods. We show that with decreasing Au size, the plasmon width increases due to enhanced surface damping contributions. The excitation of Au nanoparticles leads to an instrument response time-limited ultrafast hot electron transfer process to CdS (≪140 fs). The quantum efficiency of this process increases from ∼1% to ∼18% as the particle size decreases from 5.5 ± 1.1 to 1.6 ± 0.5 nm due to both enhanced hot electron generation and transfer efficiencies in small Au particles. Our finding suggests that decreasing plasmonic particle size is an effective approach for improving plasmon-induced hot carrier transfer efficiency and provides important insight for the rational improvement of plasmonic hot carrier-based devices.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
business.industry
Mechanical Engineering
Physics::Optics
Nanoparticle
Bioengineering
02 engineering and technology
General Chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Condensed Matter Physics
Photocatalysis
Optoelectronics
General Materials Science
Nanorod
Quantum efficiency
Particle size
Surface plasmon resonance
0210 nano-technology
business
Excitation
Plasmon
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15306992 and 15306984
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nano Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bd4709fb50cae281f2303e4c19372367