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Plasmon-enhanced plastic devices

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The abundance of unique effects found at the nanoscale offers advantages for electronics. Now, complex heterostructures of metal clusters grown on a carbon-dot support exhibit interactive plasmonic activity that enhances the performances of LEDs and solar cells.

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Figure 1: Plasmon-enhanced optical properties achieved using nanoheterostructures.

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  1. Joseph M. Luther and Jeffrey L. Blackburn are at the Chemical and Materials Sciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA,

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