Abstract
Plasmon-induced hot carrier generation has attracted much recent attention due to its promising potential in photocatalysis and other light harvesting applications. Here we develop a theoretical model for hot carrier relaxation in metallic nanoparticles using a fully quantum mechanical jellium model. Following pulsed illumination, nonradiative plasmon decay results in a highly nonthermal distribution of hot electrons and holes. Using coupled master equations, we calculate the time-dependent evolution of this carrier distribution in the presence of electron–electron, electron–photon, and electron–phonon scattering. Electron–electron relaxation is shown to be the dominant scattering mechanism and results in efficient carrier multiplication where the energy of the initial hot electron–hole pair is transferred to other multiple electron–hole pair excitations of lower energies. During this relaxation, a small but finite fraction of electrons scatter into luminescent states where they can recombine radiatively ...
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