Transition absorption as a mechanism of surface photoelectron emission from metals

Sergei Zhukovsky, Igor E. Protsenko, Renat Sh Ikhsanov, Igor V. Smetanin, Viktoriia Babicheva, Alexander Uskov

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    Abstract

    Transition absorption of a photon by an electron passingthrough a boundary between two media with different permit-tivities is described both classically and quantum mechani-cally. Transition absorption is shown to make a substantialcontribution to photoelectron emission at a metal/semicon-ductor interface in nanoplasmonic systems, and is put forth asa possible microscopic mechanism of the surface photoelec-tric effect in photodetectors and solar cells containing plas-monic nanoparticles.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalPhysica Status Solidi. Rapid Research Letters
    Volume9
    Issue number10
    Pages (from-to)570-574
    ISSN1862-6254
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

    Keywords

    • Plasmonics
    • Nanoparticles
    • Photoelectric effect
    • Photoemission
    • Photoelectrons
    • Transition absorption

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