Kluczyk, K.; Jacak, L.; Jacak, W.; David, C. Microscopic Electron Dynamics in Metal Nanoparticles for Photovoltaic Systems. Materials2018, 11, 1077.
Kluczyk, K.; Jacak, L.; Jacak, W.; David, C. Microscopic Electron Dynamics in Metal Nanoparticles for Photovoltaic Systems. Materials 2018, 11, 1077.
Kluczyk, K.; Jacak, L.; Jacak, W.; David, C. Microscopic Electron Dynamics in Metal Nanoparticles for Photovoltaic Systems. Materials2018, 11, 1077.
Kluczyk, K.; Jacak, L.; Jacak, W.; David, C. Microscopic Electron Dynamics in Metal Nanoparticles for Photovoltaic Systems. Materials 2018, 11, 1077.
Abstract
Nanoparticles -- regularly patterned or randomly dispersed -- are a key ingredient for emerging technologies in photonics. Of particular interest are scattering and field enhancement effects of metal nanoparticles for energy harvesting and converting systems. An often neglected aspect in the modeling of nanoparticles are light interaction effects beyond classical electrodynamics stemming from electron dynamics in confined and accelerated systems. We give a detailed account on free electron phenomena in metal nanoparticles and discuss analytic expressions, stemming from microscopic and semi-classical theories. These can improve standard computational schemes to produce more reliable results on the optical properties of metal nanoparticles. We combine these solutions into a single framework and study their joint impact on isolated Au, Ag, and Al nanoparticles as well as dimer structures.
Keywords
nanoparticles; microscopic electron dynamics; nonlocality; light interaction; theory and simulation
Subject
Physical Sciences, Optics and Photonics
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