Plasmonic antennas store energy by localizing light to nanoscale volumes. A plasmon’s oscillating electrons can scatter directly into a semiconductor, transferring the captured energy in less than ten femtoseconds.
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Cushing, S. Plasmonic hot carriers skip out in femtoseconds. Nature Photon 11, 748–749 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-017-0059-2
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