3 papers
cond-mat.mes-hall2026
Platinum is a Photocatalyst: Large Visible-Light Quantum Efficiency Revealed
Olivier Henrotte, Yin Chak Wong, Jordan Edwards +5
Metal-semiconductor junctions in optoelectronic devices are commonly engineered to promote charge separation. In Pt/TiO2 Schottky junctions, Pt is typically regarded as a catalytic…
physics.optics2025
Atomistic Theory of Plasmon-Induced Hot-carriers in Al Nanoparticles
Gengyue Dong, Simão João, Hanwen Jin +1
Hot electrons and holes generated from the decay of localized surface plasmons (LSPs) in aluminum nanostructures have significant potential for applications in photocatalysis, phot…
cond-mat.mes-hall2024
Reconciling Kubo and Keldysh Approaches to Fermi-Sea-Dependent Nonequilibrium Observables: Application to Spin Hall Current and Spin-Orbit Torque in Spintronics
Simao M. Joao, Marko D. Petrovic, J. M. Viana Parente Lopes +2
Quantum transport studies of spin-dependent phenomena in solids commonly employ the Kubo or Keldysh formulas for the nonequilibrium density operator in the steady-state linear-resp…