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Plasmonic Hot-Carrier Engineering at Bimetallic Nanoparticle/Semiconductor Interfaces: A Computational Perspective

Mani, Mani
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Mariandry, Kevin
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Ghorpade, Uma V.
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February 16, 2025
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Plasmonic catalysis employs plasmonic metals such as Ag, Au, Cu, and Al, typically in combination with semiconductors, to drive diverse redox chemical reactions. These metals are good at harnessing sunlight, owing to their strong absorption cross-sections and tunable absorption peaks within the visible range of the solar spectrum. Unfortunately, facilitating plasmon-induced hot-carrier separation and subsequently harvesting them to improve catalytic efficiencies has been a problem at monometallic particle-semiconductor interfaces. To overcome this issue, this perspective focuses on recent computational methods and studies to discuss the advantages of designing bimetallic particles (core-shell or core-satellite), with a plasmonic-metal core and a less-plasmonic-metal shell on top, and coupling them with semiconductors. The aim of this approach is to favorably modify the interface between the plasmonic-metal particle and the semiconductor by introducing a thin section of a non-plasmonic metal in between. This approach is expected to enhance hot-carrier separation at the interface, preventing fast electron-hole recombination within the plasmonic-metal particle. Through a careful design of such bimetal/semiconductor configurations, by varying the size and composition of the non-plasmonic metal for example, and through appropriate utilization of quantum-mechanical modeling and experimental techniques, it is anticipated that plasmonic hot-carrier generation and separation processes can be studied and controlled in such systems, thereby enabling more-efficient plasmonic devices.

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research article
DOI
10.1002/smll.202410173
Web of Science ID

WOS:001423664200001

PubMed ID

39955760

Author(s)
Mani, Mani

University of New South Wales Sydney

Mariandry, Kevin

University of New South Wales Sydney

Ghorpade, Uma V.

University of New South Wales Sydney

Saha, Sankhadip

University of New South Wales Sydney

Kokate, Ravindra

University of New South Wales Sydney

Mishra, Rishabh

University of New South Wales Sydney

Nielsen, Michael P.

University of New South Wales Sydney

Tilley, Richard

University of New South Wales Sydney

Xie, Bingqiao  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Suryawanshi, Mahesh P.

University of New South Wales Sydney

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Date Issued

2025-02-16

Publisher

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH

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Small
Subjects

bimetallic

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hot-carrier transfer

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interface

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plasmonics

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time-dependent density functional theory

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
GR-KRO  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Australian Research Council

Scientia Fellowship scheme at the University of New South Wales

Australian Research Council

DE210101565

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February 25, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/247168
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