Plasmon induced thermoelectric effect in graphene
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Graphene has emerged as a promising material for optoelectronics due to its potential for ultrafast and broad-band photodetection. The photoresponse of graphene junctions is characterized by two competing photocurrent generation mechanisms: a conventional photovoltaic effect and a more dominant hot-carrier-assisted photothermoelectric (PTE) effect. The PTE effect is understood to rely on variations in the Seebeck coefficient through the graphene doping profile. A second PTE effect can occur across a homogeneous graphene channel in the presence of an electronic temperature gradient. Here, we study the latter effect facilitated by strongly localised plasmonic heating of graphene carriers in the presence of nanostructured electrical contacts resulting in electronic temperatures of the order of 2000 K. At certain conditions, the plasmon-induced PTE photocurrent contribution can be isolated. In this regime, the device effectively operates as a sensitive electronic thermometer and as such represents an enabling technology for development of hot carrier based plasmonic devices.
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These effectively DC responses were generated by a photothermoelectric effect at the gold-graphene interfaces, with net directionality due to oriented plasmonic hot spots.
“These effectively DC responses were generated by a well-known photothermoelectric effect at the gold-graphene interfaces265,266, with net directionality due to the oriented plasmonic hot spots.”
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The Results (Photoresponse of asymmetric plasmonic contacts; page unavailable) report a non-zero photovoltage under uniform illumination because the plasmonic contact responds more strongly than the nonplasmonic contact. But the Results (Mechanism of plasmon-induced photoresponse enhancement; page unavailable) attribute the additional dominant response to a plasmon-induced photothermoelectric effect across the graphene channel, distinct from the conventional effect at a graphene–gold junction. Thus the asymmetric plasmonic directionality is supported, but the claimed location of the generating effect is not. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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- Authors
- Shautsova, V., Sidiropoulos, T., Xiao, X., Güsken, N. A., Black, N. C. G., Gilbertson, A. M., Giannini, V., Maier, S. A., Cohen, L. F., & Oulton, R. F.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- National Physical Laboratory (GB)
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Shautsova, Viktoryia
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- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2018-12-05
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- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5190-5190
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- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6281658
- OpenAlex
- W2902947590
- Cited by
- 710
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (1413820, EP/M013812, EP/D063329/1, EP/K016407/1, EP/J014699/1, EP/R00661X/1, EP/I004343/1, EP/M013812/1, EP/P02520X/1, EP/J014699)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Graphene research and applications
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
- Keywords
- graphene, photothermoelectric effect, Seebeck coefficient, plasmonic heating, electronic thermometer, plasmonic devices, photovoltaic effect
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