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The heat is on

The generation of hot electrons in plasmonic nanostructures is of scientific and technological interest, putting the community under pressure to better understand the hot-electron mechanisms and to increase the light conversion efficiency of plasmonic nanosystems for chemical reactions and photodetection.

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Won, R. The heat is on. Nature Photon 12, 446–447 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-018-0226-0

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