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Enormous enhancement in photocurrent generation using electrochemically fabricated gold nanostructures
Tsuyoshi Akiyama1, Kenta Aiba, Kazuko Hoashi
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744, Moto-oka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-395, Japan. t-akiyama@mail.cstm.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 22, 2009
Abstract:
A self-assembled monolayer of porphyrins fabricated on the surface of an electrochemically deposited gold nanostructure exhibits enormous enhancement of photocurrent due to porphyrin excitation, especially in the near-infrared region, where localized surface plasmon resonance was responsible.
