Plasmonic Hot Electron Transport Drives Nano-localized Chemistry

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2017 Mar 29

PMID 28348402

Citations 75

Authors

Emiliano Cortes

Wei Xie

Javier Cambiasso

Adam S Jermyn

Ravishankar Sundararaman

Prineha Narang

Sebastian Schlucker

Stefan A Maier

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Abstract

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 nm 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.

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