Abstract

Hybrid metal/semiconductor nano-heterostructures with strong exciton-plasmon coupling have been proposed for applications in hot carrier optoelectronic devices. However, the performance of devices based on this concept has been limited by the poor efficiency of plasmon-hot electron conversion at the metal/semiconductor interface. Here, we report that the efficiency of interfacial hot excitation transfer can be substantially improved in hybrid metal semiconductor nano-heterostructures consisting of perovskite semiconductors. In Ag–CsPbBr3 nanocrystals, both the plasmon-induced hot electron and the resonant energy transfer processes can occur on a time scale of less than 100 fs with quantum efficiencies of 50 ± 18% and 15 ± 5%, respectively. The markedly high efficiency of hot electron transfer observed here can be ascribed to the increased metal/semiconductor coupling compared with those in conventional systems. These findings suggest that hybrid architectures of metal and perovskite semiconductors may be excellent candidates to achieve highly efficient plasmon-induced hot carrier devices.

Proposed devices exploiting the strong exciton-plasmon coupling are limited by the low efficiency of hot carrier generation. Here, Huang et al. study the efficiencies of different plasmon-hot electron conversion processes in metal/perovskite semiconductor nanocrystals to address this problem.

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Title
Efficient plasmon-hot electron conversion in Ag–CsPbBr3 hybrid nanocrystals
Author
Huang, Xinyu 1 ; Li, Hongbo 2 ; Zhang, Chunfeng 3 ; Tan Shijing 4 ; Chen Zhangzhang 1 ; Chen, Lan 1 ; Lu Zhenda 5 ; Wang, Xiaoyong 1 ; Xiao, Min 6 

 Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing, China (GRID:grid.41156.37) (ISNI:0000 0001 2314 964X) 
 Nanjing University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing, China (GRID:grid.41156.37) (ISNI:0000 0001 2314 964X); Nanjing Tech University, Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) and Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing, China (GRID:grid.412022.7) (ISNI:0000 0000 9389 5210) 
 Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing, China (GRID:grid.41156.37) (ISNI:0000 0001 2314 964X); University of Science and Technology of China, Synergetic Innovation Center in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, Hefei, China (GRID:grid.59053.3a) (ISNI:0000000121679639) 
 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and Department of Chemical Physics, Hefei, China (GRID:grid.59053.3a) (ISNI:0000000121679639) 
 Nanjing University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing, China (GRID:grid.41156.37) (ISNI:0000 0001 2314 964X) 
 Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing, China (GRID:grid.41156.37) (ISNI:0000 0001 2314 964X); University of Science and Technology of China, Synergetic Innovation Center in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, Hefei, China (GRID:grid.59053.3a) (ISNI:0000000121679639); University of Arkansas, Department of Physics, Fayetteville, USA (GRID:grid.411017.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 2151 0999) 
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Dec 2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20411723
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2190076353
Copyright
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