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Size-dependent photoemission study by electrochemical coarsening of nanoporous gold

Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2024-07-30
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Ebrahimi, Fatemeh  
Optische und Elektronische Materialien E-12  
Wu, Xinyan 
Optische und Elektronische Materialien E-12  
Pfeiffer, Maurice  
Optische und Elektronische Materialien E-12  
Renner, Hagen  
Optische und Elektronische Materialien E-12  
Mameka, Nadiia  
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon  
Eich, Manfred  
Optische und Elektronische Materialien E-12  
Petrov, Alexander  orcid-logo
Optische und Elektronische Materialien E-12  
TORE-URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11420/48710
Journal
The journal of physical chemistry C  
Volume
128
Issue
31
Start Page
12777
End Page
13386
Citation
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128 (31): 12777-13386 (2024)
Publisher DOI
10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c02222
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85199957240
Publisher
American Chemical Society
The generation and utilization of hot charge carriers in plasmonic materials have emerged as a topic of significant importance with profound implications across multiple disciplines, including optoelectronics, photovoltaics, photocatalysis, and sensing. In this study, we investigate the hot electron transfer from nanoporous gold (npAu) dependent on the structure size, utilizing both the nanoscale feature size and the interconnected nature of this material. We employed photoelectron injection from nanoporous gold into the electrolyte under UV illumination as a test electron transfer process. Nanoporous gold thin films with sub-10 nm initial ligament diameter are stepwise coarsened by potential cycles in a photoelectrochemical setup, thereby allowing us to precisely probe the influence of the ligament diameter on the photocurrent response. The resulting ligament diameter variations are confirmed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis. As the ligament diameter increased from 8 to 16 nm, there was a corresponding decrease in quantum efficiency proportional to the inverse ligament diameter squared. Such a dependency is expected for electrons excited by surface collisions. For the small ligament diameter of 10 nm, we estimate an emission efficiency of excited 6sp electrons as 3.14%, reaching 23% for the surface-excited electrons.
Subjects
Absorption
Gold
Hot electrons
Photoemission
Quantum efficiency
DDC Class
621.3: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering
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