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Photoexcited Hot Electron Catalysis in Plasmon-Resonant Grating Structures with Platinum, Nickel, and Ruthenium Coatings.
Aravind, Indu; Wang, Yu Yun; Wang, Yu; Li, Ruoxi; Cai, Zhi; Zhao, Bofan; Zhang, Boxin; Weng, Sizhe; Shahriar, Rifat; Cronin, Stephen B.
Afiliación
  • Aravind I; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
  • Wang YY; Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
  • Wang Y; Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
  • Li R; Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
  • Cai Z; Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
  • Zhao B; Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
  • Zhang B; Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
  • Weng S; Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
  • Shahriar R; Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
  • Cronin SB; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces ; 16(14): 17393-17400, 2024 Apr 10.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38563348
ABSTRACT
We report the electrochemical potential dependence of photocatalysis produced by hot electrons in plasmon-resonant grating structures. Here, corrugated metal surfaces with a period of 520 nm are illuminated with 785 nm wavelength laser light swept as a function of incident angle. At incident angles corresponding to plasmon-resonant excitation, we observe sharp peaks in the electrochemical photocurrent and dips in the photoreflectance consistent with the conditions under which there is wavevector matching between the incident light and the spacing between the lines in the grating. In addition to the bare plasmonic metal surface (i.e., Au), which is catalytically inert, we have measured grating structures with a thin layer of Pt, Ru, and Ni catalyst coatings. For the bare Au grating, we observe that the plasmon-resonant photocurrent remains relatively featureless over the applied potential range from -0.8 to +1.2 V vs NHE. For the Pt-coated grating, we observe a sharp peak around -0.3 V vs NHE, three times larger than the bare Au grating, and near complete suppression of the oxidation half-reaction, reflecting the reducing nature of Pt as a good hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst. The photocurrent associated with the Pt-coated grating is less noisy and produces higher photocurrents than the bare Au grating due to the faster kinetics (i.e., charge transfer) associated with the Pt-coated surface. The plasmon-resonant grating structures enable us to compare plasmon-resonant excitation with that of bulk metal interband absorption simply by rotating the polarization of the light while leaving all other parameters of the experiment fixed (i.e., wavelength, potential, electrochemical solution, sample surface, etc.). A 64X plasmon-resonant enhancement (i.e., p-to-s polarized photocurrent ratio) is observed for the Pt-coated grating compared to 28X for the bare grating. The nickel-coated grating shows an increase in the hot-electron photocurrent enhancement in both oxidation and reduction half-reactions. Similarly, Ru-coated gratings show an increase in hot-electron photocurrents in the oxidation half-reaction compared to the bare Au grating. Plasmon-resonant enhancement factors of 36X and 15X are observed in the p-to-s polarized photocurrent ratio for the Ni and Ru gratings, respectively.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: ACS Appl Mater Interfaces Asunto de la revista: BIOTECNOLOGIA / ENGENHARIA BIOMEDICA Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Estados Unidos

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: ACS Appl Mater Interfaces Asunto de la revista: BIOTECNOLOGIA / ENGENHARIA BIOMEDICA Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Estados Unidos