Direct Interfacial Charge Separation in Plasmonic Heterostructures Revealed by Single-Part — NSF Award to University of Illinois a
Non-Technical Description This project is developing methods to understand how metal nanoparticles, 1000 times smaller than the width of a hair, capture and convert light into usable energy when contacting metal oxide semiconductors. Although metal nanoparticles efficiently absorb light, most of the absorbed energy is
| Award title | Direct Interfacial Charge Separation in Plasmonic Heterostructures Revealed by Single-Part |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2436147 |
| Awardee | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| City | URBANA |
| State | IL |
| Amount obligated | $408,624 |
| Principal investigator | Stephan Link |
| Program | ELECTRONIC/PHOTONIC MATERIALS |
| Start date | 07/01/2024 |
| Abstract | Non-Technical Description This project is developing methods to understand how metal nanoparticles, 1000 times smaller than the width of a hair, capture and convert light into usable energy when contacting metal oxide semiconductors. Although metal nanoparticles efficiently absorb light, most of the absorbed energy is converted into heat. On the other hand, metal oxide semiconductors can store light energy for much longer times than metals making them useful for applications such as photodetecti |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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