{"id":19340,"date":"2020-06-09T13:35:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19340"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:57","slug":"first-measurement-of-electron-energy-distributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/09\/first-measurement-of-electron-energy-distributions\/","title":{"rendered":"First measurement of electron energy distributions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-665x442.jpg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured.jpg 1560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Hot electrons travel along the molecule into the probe tip. The molecule only allows electrons within a narrow range of energies to pass. (Enrique Shagun, Scixel)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new tool could enable the design of more efficient sustainable energy and chemistry technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers from University of Michigan, Purdue University, and the University of Liverpool has figured out a way to measure <a href=\"https:\/\/news.engin.umich.edu\/2020\/06\/first-measurement-of-electron-energy-distributions\/\">how many \u201chot charge carriers\u201d are present in a metal nanostructure<\/a>. This is critical for efficient energy conversion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team believes that others can use it to explore and optimize nanostructures. This is important in applications such as converting sunlight to chemical energy because the number of hot charge carriers affects how well a catalyst can direct light energy toward a chemical reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study is described in a paper published in the journal Science, titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abb3457\">Determining plasmonic hot-carrier energy distributions via single-molecule transport measurements<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new tool could enable the design of more efficient sustainable energy and chemistry technologies. Researchers from University of Michigan, Purdue University, and the University of Liverpool has figured out a way to measure how many \u201chot charge carriers\u201d are present in a metal nanostructure. This is critical for efficient energy conversion. The team believes that others can\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/09\/first-measurement-of-electron-energy-distributions\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[849,850,848],"class_list":["post-19340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-energy","tag-mechanical-engineering","tag-nanostructure"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured.jpg",1560,1038,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-768x511.jpg",665,442,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-700x466.jpg",600,399,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-1536x1022.jpg",1536,1022,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured.jpg",1560,1038,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured-665x442.jpg",665,442,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HotCarriers-contentfeatured.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The new tool could enable the design of more efficient sustainable energy and chemistry technologies. Researchers from University of Michigan, Purdue University, and the University of Liverpool has figured out a way to measure how many \u201chot charge carriers\u201d are present in a metal nanostructure. This is critical for efficient energy conversion. 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