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Transition absorption as a mechanism of surface photoelectron emission from metals |
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| Authors: | Sergei V Zhukovsky Igor E Protsenko Renat Sh Ikhsanov Igor V Smetanin Viktoriia E Babicheva Alexander V Uskov |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark;2. ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia;3. P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia;4. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia;5. Research Institute of Scientific Instruments (RISI), State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, Moscow Region, Russia;6. Center for Nano‐Optics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Abstract: | Transition absorption of a photon by an electron passing through a boundary between two media with different permittivities is described both classically and quantum mechanically. Transition absorption is shown to make a substantial contribution to photoelectron emission at a metal/semicon‐ductor interface in nanoplasmonic systems, and is put forth as a possible microscopic mechanism of the surface photoelectric effect in photodetectors and solar cells containing plasmonic nanoparticles.  |
| Keywords: | plasmonics nanoparticles photoelectric effect photoemission photoelectrons transition absorption |
