Plasmonic Hybrid Systems
Light enhancment at electrode interfaces
Nanostructured materials have the capability to locally enhance incoming light at the material/dielectric interface. Noble metals like silver or gold create this surface enhancement via generation of surface plasmon resonances. However also semiconductor materials like TiO2 can enhance light via a photonic enhancement if they exhibit a suitable surface morphology. We are looking at a variety of mostly anisotropic nanostructured electrode types that are suitable for surface enhanced spectroscopy on the one side and photo-electrocatalysis on the other hand. Specifically we are interested in correlating surface confined light enhancement with acceleration of photocatalytic reactions.
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