Figure 5: Energy distribution of hot carriers from thin-film plasmon decay.
From: Theoretical predictions for hot-carrier generation from surface plasmon decay
Energy distributions of hot carriers (electrons in blue, holes in red) generated by the decay of symmetric and antisymmetric plasmon modes of energy 2.8 eV on gold thin films of various thicknesses. As the film thickness decreases, the relative probability for generating hot electrons via geometry-assisted intraband transitions (compared with hot holes generated via interband transitions) increases.
