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Rice University

ELECTRONS 1

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Rice University physicists discover that plasmonic metals can be prompted to produce "hot carriers" that in turn emit unexpectedly bright light in nanoscale gaps between electrodes. The phenomenon could be useful for photocatalysis, quantum optics and optoelectronics.

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Illustration by Longji Cui and Yunxuan Zhu/Rice University

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