Photo-induced chemical processes on metal–semiconductor–metal nanostructures

Plasmonic Near-Field Absorbers for Ultrathin Solar Cells

“…The concepts discussed in this Perspective apply to a broad range of thin film solar cell materials such as those exemplified in Figure , and are also of high relevance for photochemical energy conversion, as recently shown in several works. − The basic requirements for the semiconductor materials are that they are sufficiently absorbing (damping) to compete well with Joule heating of the metallic elements and that they can be grown in a controlled and preferably uniform fashion with typical thicknesses around 10 nm.…”