Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0064823

Zusammenfassung

Highly efficient, flexible, and scalable direct conversion of sun light into electric or chemical energy will be instrumental to master the climate crisis. A nano scaled device is proposed which is able to directly convert light into an electric potential without being limited by the band gap of a semi-conductor. The plasmo-electric converter exploits a thermodynamic effect in nanometer-sized metallic optical antennas excited next to their resonance. It generates an electric potential, which can then be used to drive currents or shift electrochemical potentials. The key building block ...